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Company: Parallax/APEX
Company Description: Parallax is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that tackles global challenges by accelerating innovation and developing technology and solutions through strategic partnerships with government, industry and academia across Ohio and the Nation. Together with academia, Parallax accelerates innovation that leads to new breakthroughs. Together with government, Parallax tackles critical global challenges and deliver
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Organization of the Year - Non-Profit or Government - Medium
 Nomination Title: Parallax Advanced Research
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: Briefly describe the nominated organization: its history and past performance (up to 200 words):
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The future is limitless for Parallax Advanced Research, a 501(c)(3) research organization that brings together top talent from diverse backgrounds across industry, academia, and the government to collaboratively develop next-generation scientific and technological solutions.
One of the Dayton Business Journal’s “2021 Best Places to Work,” Parallax develops people alongside ground-breaking innovations, which include research in unmanned aerial vehicles, human performance, artificial intelligence, autonomy, analytics, systems integration, and test evaluations. In the words of President and CEO Dennis Andersh, “We are enabling this young team to grow, collaborate, and work together by solving worthwhile problems—that’s the legacy. Now, the sky’s the limit.”
Parallax’s growth trajectory, from $30.9M in 2019 to $42M in 2021, is illustrated by investments in companies’ innovative firms, such as GhostWave, Inc. and Asymmetric Technologies. GhostWave, Inc. developed a novel detection and avoidance system for drones and flying cars that is immune to jamming and interference. Asymmetric Technologies’ IronClad Secure Flight Controller technology is a cyber-secure open-architecture flight controller for unmanned aircraft systems with an on-board damage tolerant flight control and automated sense and avoid software suite. These are just two of many examples of Parallax’s history of supporting small business innovation.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2020 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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Andersh’s vision is to connect the right people with the right skills to develop a pathway to innovating the best solutions that address urgent government and industry needs. By aggregating information and asking better questions, Parallax’s client-facing teams produce quality proposals in response to large-scale RFPs. Meanwhile, senior leadership can focus on strategic initiatives that drive sustainable growth.
The results speak volumes:
- Employee retention:
- 99% employee retention during transition
- Parallax’s OFRN program:
- 8 spin-out organizations
- $40M invested + 1:1 Cost Share
- $200M in follow-on funding
- 28 projects funded
- 382 jobs created
- 1,598 indirect jobs created
- 12 pieces of IP created with 2 pending
- 156.4% improvement in Ohio’s R&D efficiency
- Parallax’s Launch Dayton Program:
- 171 Entrepreneurs supported; 48% women, 43% minority
- 70 ideas pitched at Early Risers
- 62 graduates from the Early Risers Academy free 10-week pre-accelerator program
- In 2021, Launch Dayton hosted Start-up Week, with a speaker line-up comprised of 46% people of color and 59% women
- Parallax’s Tech Warrior Enterprise Program:
- 337 events hosted and presented at, including Tech Warrior Ops and Tech Warrior Connect
- 726 companies reached during 337 events
- >150 small businesses pitched to tech scouts
- APEX program:
- >80 data-analytics projects
- 7 tech transition program executive office's engaged
- 50 states reached
- >40 training events
- >300 companies supported with APEX’s free process-navigation services
- 8 innovation workshops
- >150 Air Force Research Laboratory attendees served
- Parallax was nominated as a Best Place to Work in Dayton in 2021 by the Dayton Business Journal
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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Parallax is unique because it innovates in house with a team of highly skilled scientists and engineers and cultivates innovation by managing state and federal-funded technology management programs such as:
Tech Warrior Enterprise provides facilities and technical evaluation support services to test new technologies via demonstration in relevant settings and in collaboration with government users. The program's operational scenarios include combat rescue, disaster response, airbase defense, personnel recovery, command and control, agile combat support, and special operations.
The Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment (APEX) is a US Department of the Air Force (DAF) partnership intermediary program cultivating innovation by expanding the American research enterprise through academic, industry, and government collaborations. The APEX program eliminates barriers to accelerating the transition of science and technology into transformational DAF operational capabilities.
The Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) is an Ohio-focused research and development program established by Parallax and the Ohio Department of Higher Education. OFRN's mission is to stimulate Ohio's innovation economy by funding R&D that meets federal laboratory requirements and builds university and industry collaborations.
Parallax is a founding partner of Launch Dayton: a collaborative entrepreneurial support effort. Parallax’s Launch Dayton team supports Dayton region entrepreneurs by cultivating an easily accessible resource environment, creating high-caliber programming, and building a network of champions, mentors, and resource providers who help entrepreneurs succeed.
Parallax fills innovation voids in Ohio. Parallax’s approach is to partner, not compete, with peer organizations, such as the Ohio Aerospace Institute, universities, especially Historically Black Colleges & Universities, and federal agencies.
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These linked articles showcase Parallax’s recent successes and demonstrate that Parallax is attaining its mission as a nonprofit serving the interests of the community, state of Ohio, and the Nation.
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