{"id":5461,"date":"2026-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:59:42","slug":"shipbuilding-programs-director-to-keynote-aapas-annual-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/shipbuilding-programs-director-to-keynote-aapas-annual-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipbuilding Programs Director to Keynote AAPA&#8217;s Annual Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Jerry Hendrix, Associate Director for Shipbuilding Programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget, will keynote AAPA&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aapa.getregistered.net\/2026-annual-convention\">Annual Convention &amp; Expo<\/a><\/strong>, September 28-30 in New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Hendrix will join Paul Anderson, President &amp; CEO of Port Tampa Bay, for a fireside chat titled <strong>&#8220;Reclaiming Maritime Dominance: Funding, Fees, and the New Frontier of U.S. Shipbuilding.&#8221;<\/strong> The conversation will cover the White House&#8217;s Maritime Action Plan, including funding mechanisms such as Maritime Prosperity Zones and a proposed universal fee on foreign-built vessels entering U.S. ports, as well as interagency procurement coordination and workforce development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rooms at the group rate<\/strong> are filling up fast, so <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aapa.getregistered.net\/2026-annual-convention\/register\">register today<\/a><\/strong> to secure your spot and hear this insider perspective firsthand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jerry Hendrix, Associate Director for Shipbuilding Programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget, will keynote AAPA&#8217;s Annual Convention &amp; Expo, September 28-30 in New Orleans. Dr. Hendrix will join Paul Anderson, President &amp; CEO of Port Tampa Bay, for a fireside chat titled &#8220;Reclaiming Maritime Dominance: Funding, Fees, and the New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1297],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","tag-annual-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}