Parallax Expands to Springfield-Beckley Airfield: Building a Testbed for the Next Era of Uncrewed Flight

Photo courtesy of NAAMCE Tenancy at the National Advanced Air Mobility Center of Excellence strengthens Parallax’s UAV test and evaluation footprint, accelerates Vigilant Spirit integration, and deepens collaboration with Ohio’s AAM ecosystem. When...

Posted on Mar 11, 2026

Regional Innovation that is Advancing National Security

The EDGE Defense Summit in Pittsburgh highlighted the growing role regional ecosystems play in national security. Hosted by APEX and the Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC) and moderated by Parallax Advanced Research, the event convened Department of...

Posted on Mar 3, 2026

Mission-Level Autonomy: Why Intent, Not Automation, Will Define the Next Era of Autonomous Operations

By the time a human operator recognizes a problem, debates the options, and issues new instructions, the mission may already be lost. That reality underlies the recent shift in focus to mission-level autonomy as an operational necessity rather than a...

Posted on Feb 25, 2026

Parallax Advanced Research Named to Emergent Defense’s 2025 Impact 100 and Recognized as a 2025 Best Place to Work

Emergent Defense Magazine has named Parallax Advanced Research to the 2025 Impact 100: Most Impactful Organizations in the Defense Industry Ecosystem and recognized as one of the 2025 Best Workplaces in Defense. These honors signal that Parallax...

Posted on Feb 20, 2026

Parallax Advanced Research Earns 2026 Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency

Parallax Advanced Research is proud to announce that we have earned the 2026 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid—marking our fourth consecutive year receiving the highest level of recognition offered by the nonprofit sector’s leading...

Posted on Feb 12, 2026

An Environment of Innovation – A Retrospective on the Parallax/OAI Affiliation By Dr. Edie Williams, Director, Strategic Education and Workforce Development

“It’s been a minute”, as the current slang describes an extended period, since the affiliation of Parallax Advanced Research with the Ohio Aerospace Institute. With the end of calendar year 2025 quickly approaching, it seemed like a good time to...

Posted on Dec 23, 2025

Parallax’s Director of AI/Autonomy, Intelligent Systems Division, Dr. Matt Molineaux on AI-Informed Decision Making for Superior Human–Machine Teaming

Decision advantage is the new battlespace. As information multiplies across domains, decision-makers—from commanders in the field to analysts—are tasked with translating overwhelming complexity into timely, accountable action. Yet while AI has become...

Posted on Dec 23, 2025

First Girls of Tomorrow Cohort Builds Early Pathways Into STEM

Cleveland & Dayton, Ohio — For a group of kindergarten and first-grade girls, science this year was not an abstract concept found in a textbook. It was something they built, launched, questioned, and proudly carried home. The inaugural Girls of...

Posted on Dec 19, 2025

Innovator Spotlight: Katie “Bug” Heilner, UAV Analyst and Program Manager

Former USAF/ANG aviator and Parallax/OAI UAV program manager Katie “Bug” Heilner translates operator realities into deployable autonomy—pushing AAM access, multi-UAS teaming, and better requirements so capability arrives when it counts. With more...

Posted on Dec 17, 2025

Dr. Mary Frame on Building Human-Centered AI for Defense Decision Superiority

Artificial intelligence is changing how the Department of Defense thinks, fights, and decides—but according to Dr. Mary Frame, Program Manager and Director of Cognitive Research at Parallax Advanced Research and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, the real...

Posted on Nov 24, 2025