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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 11, 2021 

Dayton, Ohio -- Tech Warrior Enterprise – a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program that is managed by Parallax Advanced Research - will host its Tech Warrior Tactical OPS event from April 19-23, 2021 in an online setting. The virtual event provides an opportunity for small businesses and innovators from around the U.S. to demonstrate their technologies, science and innovations to U.S. Air Force warfighters and first responders and gain early feedback to improve their innovation for

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 1, 2021

Eight Ohio companies will spin new technology out of their portfolios and into the defense and commercial markets through the Dayton Region’s newest defense accelerator: The Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) Defense Accelerator. The Accelerator is a program funded by the Department of Defense OEA and will be managed by Launch Dayton partners Parallax Advanced Research and the Entrepreneurs’ Center.

The program seeks to help participating startups identify uses of their technologies; move their technology products to market; position their

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 27, 2020

DAYTON – Mary Margaret Evans joins Parallax Advanced Research as executive director for the Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment ( Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment  ): a program designed to improve the connections between the U.S. Air Force, academia and industry across the U.S. to result in a major leap forward for U.S. Air Force defense technology development.

Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment  , a $49 million partnership intermediary agreement, was awarded to Parallax in 2019. Parallax is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 2011 to tackle global challenges by accelerating innovation, developing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 25, 2021  

Program enables small businesses to perform testing on proposed technologies and gain early feedback from warfighters and first responders

Beavercreek, Ohio – Parallax Advanced Research, the applied scientific research and development organization, has been awarded a one-year contract with four one-year option periods valued at $12.38 million to further develop the Tech Warrior Enterprise program for the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs operated by the Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Center of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 7, 2020 

Parallax Advanced Research’s OFRN program initiative is open for applications 

Dayton, Ohio – The OFRN, a program of Parallax Advanced Research, announced that its Round 5 SOARING initiative is open for applications. SOARING Round 5 areas of interest include vertical take-off & landing artificial intelligence, human machine teaming, data analytics, space commercialization, quantum communications, patient care in austere and contested environments and advanced power systems to name a few. The areas of interests aim to further enable and accelerate

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 2, 2020

Apply today to be one of the first 25 mentors

Want the inside track on the Dayton Region’s hottest startups? Apply to be a mentor in the new Launch Dayton Mentor Network.

The Launch Dayton Mentor Network is a new program to provide existing entrepreneurs in the Dayton Region access to a network of skilled mentors who provide professional guidance to help entrepreneurs meet specific business milestones.

“The goal of the program is to foster a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem where business owners of all stages, industries and demographics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  November 17, 2020    

Beavercreek, OH – CAL Analytics, based near Dayton, Ohio, is introducing a newly developed Contingency Management Platform (CMP) designed to provide a much-needed safety layer to drone operations for the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystems. The CMP will allow airspace supervision of drone operations, monitoring the health and integrity of the entire UTM and AAM ecosystem and enabling responses to emergent contingency conditions. The collaborative effort includes private companies ResilienX, TrueWeather

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Nov. 10, 2020

DAYTON – The Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) hosted a demonstration of its “Sustaining Ohio's Aeronautical Readiness and Innovation in the Next Generation Rounds 3 and 4” (SOARING) initiative at Springfield-Beckley Airport, during which multiple unmanned aerial systems (UAS) were successfully tested in the airfield and integrated into SkyVision.

The test results conclude that the projects successfully integrate with SkyVision and Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) other aircraft and other flight path obstacles while remotely operated by the pilot. Select

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Nov. 3, 2020  

Small biz owners: Sign up to participate by Wednesday, Nov. 18 

DAYTON, Ohio - Launch Dayton's partner organizations are collaborating to run the online #LaunchIntoTheHolidays campaign to promote Dayton region small businesses this holiday season. 

Beginning Cyber Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, and running through Friday, Dec. 18, Launch Dayton partner organizations, including Aviatra Accelerators — Dayton, Downtown Dayton Partnership, Miami Valley Small Business Development Center, Parallax Advanced Research and The Entrepreneurs Center, will share

Dayton, OH – (October 24, 2020) – Today, in a special meeting, Parallax Advanced Research, a new scientific research and development organization was created after the Board of Directors of the (formerly named) Wright State Applied Research Corporation properly approved updated Articles of Incorporation and Code of Regulations under Ohio law.

According to Gayle Rominger, chair of the previous organization’s Board and, now, chair of the new Board of Directors, “we are thrilled to move forward as Parallax Advanced Research. This is a huge step for the region and the state as this is a now a