By Mike Stone

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is escalating pressure on the defense industry to stop opposing military right-to-repair legislation, as House and Senate negotiators work to finalize the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

In a sharply-worded November 5 letter to the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) obtained by Reuters, Warren accused the industry group of attempting to undermine bipartisan efforts to give the Pentagon greater ability to repair weapons and equipment it owns.

She called the group’s opposition “a dangerous and misguided attempt to protect an unacceptable status quo of giant contractor profiteering.”

Currently, the government is often required to pay contractors like NDIA members Lockheed Martin Boein

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