Congressman Pat Harrigan
@RepPatHarrigan
Congressman From #NC10#, Green Beret, Bronze Star Recipient, Entrepreneur, Husband, Father, Serving on @HASCRepublicans and @HouseScience.
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If American companies can make it, why are we still buying it from overseas?
That's the question I asked @SecVetAffairs in a bipartisan letter about the VA's procurement of personal protective equipment.
Congress passed the Make PPE in America Act for a reason: to reduce our dependence on foreign supply chains and strengthen domestic manufacturing.
If qualified American-made products are available, they should ALWAYS come first.
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Imagine a thief who can't pick your lock today, but takes a photo of it, walks away, and comes back in five years with better tools. That is exactly what China is doing with American data right now, collecting everything they can get their hands on and waiting for quantum computing to catch up so they can crack it all at once.
@POTUS signed an executive order this week to get ahead of that threat, and I am introducing legislation to put the full force of Congress behind it.
We are talking about reshoring quantum supply chains, transitioning federal systems to encryption that quantum computers cannot break, and making sure America defines what the next era of computing looks like.
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For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.
So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.
That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.
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