The INSIDER daily digest

The OCO budget leads off this Monday INSIDER Daily Digest.

The head of the House Armed Services Committee spoke today on the defense budget:

Thornberry eyes Pentagon supplemental budget request

House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) has yet to receive a formal request from the Pentagon on an expected supplemental budget request to finance the retention of U.S. troops in Afghanistan as well as additional operations in Iraq and Syria, but he believes the military is now conducting $6 billion worth of activities that were not part of the Obama administration's fiscal year 2017 request.

House Democrats don't particularly like President Obama's nuclear modernization plan:

House Democrats urge Obama to rein in nuclear modernization plans

Five House Democrats, citing ongoing fiscal constraints and concerns about nuclear war, have sent a letter to the White House urging President Obama to "reshape" his current plan to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Document: House lawmakers' letter on modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal

The DOT&E has issues with the Army's Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio program:

Gilmore invokes FCS in critique of Army's mid-tier radio

The Army plans to proceed toward a milestone C decision this summer to support a low-rate initial production decision for its Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio, but the Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation recently warned the system has significant shortcomings.

Document: DOT&E report on mid-tier network and MNVR operational assessment

The Marine Corps wants to fix a glitch in the transparent armor used on tactical trucks:

Marine Corps will modify transparent armor performance spec in upcoming months

The Marine Corps hopes to modify its performance specification for transparent armor over the next three to four months as the service's first wave of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are in reset at depots across the country.

The head of the Marine Corps wants congressional support to rework the acquisition protest process:

Neller calls for congressional action to reform protest process

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller is calling for congressional action on acquisition contract protest reform by merging the system's two tribunals to streamline the process.