Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
A recent $97.5 million Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract to Beavercreek’s Parallax Advanced Research is by far the biggest contract in the firm’s short history
“It means that we’ve grown up,” said Dennis Andersh, president and chief executive of Parallax.
The contract to Parallax provides for the application of cognitive systems engineering and agile software development in a variety of operational domains, the Department of Defense said when it announced the contract last month.
Some $85 million of the contract will go to payroll in Ohio, mostly in Beavercreek and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Andersh said in a new interview. Work is expected to be completed by May 2029.
The contract’s lineage can be traced to government work in the past eight years by Parallax and its predecessor corporation, said Darrell Lochtefeld, vice president and division manager RDT&E (research, development, testing and evaluation) for Parallax. This is not a follow-on contract on paper, but the work does involve continuity with earlier work, he said.
Wright State created a corporation in 2011 as a separate nonprofit to coordinate research funding. After the expiration of an affiliation agreement with the university, the Wright State Applied Research Corp. changed its name to Parallax Applied Research Corp. in late 2020.
