Bryan McGrath, managing director of the FerryBridge Group consultancy and deputy director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower, discusses the US Navy’s March 2018 Breaking the Mold workshop, encouraging innovation, aircraft carriers’ continued significance, the large carrier vs. small carrier debate, what kind of ships the Navy needs for the future, wargaming, combat survivability, preventing accidents and much more during a wide-ranging April 2018 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Navy League’s 2018 Sea-Air-Space symposium near Washington. Our coverage was sponsored by Fincantieri Marine Group, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.