FY26 NDAA: Taking Stock of Repair Data

The U.S. Department of Defense will soon undertake a large-scale assessment of its data rights – and, where it sees gaps, look to contractors to fill them.   

If the recently released National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 is passed into law as written, DoD will have 90 days to set up an electronic inventory of its maintenance and repair data. This inventory will keep track not only of where the data are stored or how they can be accessed, and what the government may do with them, but also contractor “compliance” with respect to data rights assertions and markings. 

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