On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell,Rear Adm. Paul Schlise, USN, the US Navy’s surface warfare director, and Maj. Gen. Tracy King, USMC, the service’s director of expeditionary warfare, discuss how the Navy will regain program management credibility as it embarks on a series of new warship programs, the need for reliability and maintainability in future platforms, distributed Marine operations and the need for the Light Amphibious Warship, mine countermeasures and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage of the Surface Navy Association’s virtual annual meeting was sponsored by Fincantieri Marinette Marine, GE Marine and Leonardo DRS. We are an SNA media partner.