The INSIDER daily digest -- April 2, 2018

The Marine Corps' Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations concept, Army ground robotics programs and more highlight this Monday INSIDER Daily Digest.

The Marine Corps will host a classified industry day April 10 where Navy and Marine Corps officers will outline the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations concept:

Marines establish expeditionary advanced base operations task force

The Marine Corps is establishing an Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations Task Force to explore and experiment with tactics and technology.

The Army aims to remove 2,000 robots from the inventory before the programs of record are fully online:

Army to organize ground robotics portfolio, speed up prototyping

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The Army is establishing three programs of record to sort its inventory of more than 4,000 non-standard robots and seeks to develop a common controller across the entire fleet.

This year's Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team views combat operations in the electromagnetic spectrum as a highly contested environment:

EW study team looks to implement non-material solutions by March 2019

The Air Force, in its ongoing deep-dive study of electronic warfare and the electromagnetic spectrum, is considering non-material solutions as part of its analysis and could start implementing them by next spring, according to an update to an earlier request for information.

Initial operational capability for the F-35C carrier variant will be capability- and event-driven:

Navy faces several challenges before declaring F-35C wartime ready in 2019

The Navy is facing several challenges before it can declare the F-35C wartime ready in 2019, including how Block 3F software will perform during operational testing, green-glow emitting from the Gen III helmet and cockpit oscillations when the jet conducts takeoffs and landings from an aircraft carrier, according to a service official.

The Air Force's top civilian official spoke at a recent Air Force Association breakfast on Capitol Hill:

Wilson outlines progress on acquisition, regulatory oversight efforts

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson last week pointed to additional actions under way to make the service's requirements-building, acquisition and regulatory processes more integrated and flexible.

The FY-18 omnibus appropriations bill adds $558 million for Israeli missile defense programs:

Congress adds more than half-a-billion dollars for Israeli missile defense in FY-18 omnibus

U.S. lawmakers included more than $500 million for Israeli missile defense above the Trump administration's request in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2018 final spending package, lifting the total allocation for Jerusalem to $705 million -- a total that exceeds by more than 40 percent a $500 million cap for Israeli missile defense assistance set to kick in in FY-19.