Aras Corporation

Aras Corporation, an Andover, Massachusetts-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software company, sells software subscriptions and related engineering services to the Department of Defense and federal research agencies, operating as both a prime contractor (67% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (33%). The vendor competes on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its portfolio and holds no active government-wide contracts or indefinite delivery vehicles; task orders flow through legacy Air Force and Army IDIQs and the Alliant II GWAC.

Aras's capability footprint centers on Aras Innovator, an open-source PLM platform designed to support complex product development and engineering lifecycle management in defense and aerospace. The vendor's representative prime work consists of recurring annual subscription renewals with the Naval Air Warfare Center: a $128,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order for 100 units of Aras Innovator Standard Subscription (2025–2026), a $119,700 sole-source renewal (2024–2025), a $57,000 renewal (2023–2024), and a $136,960 renewal effective through June 2027. In the sub role, Aras provides Aras Innovator software licenses and renewals to Science Applications International Corporation on defense cyber and systems engineering programs, including a renewal under SAIC's GMASS assessment contract for current system migration (2024), and delivers PLM engineering support to General Dynamics Mission Systems on cybersecurity and goods-and-services procurements.

Customer concentration splits evenly between defense and research. The top five funding agencies account for 79% of awards: the Department of the Army Materiel Command (15 awards, $841 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (10 awards, $822 thousand combined potential value) dominate both volume and dollars on the prime side, while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center (4 awards, $121 thousand), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (5 awards), and the Department of the Army (4 awards) round out active customers. The vendor also subcontracts heavily to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory FFRDC through MIT prime contracts, performing operational services and software subscriptions on six sub-awards in 2024–2025, alongside work with V2X Systems LLC and HX5 LLC on strategic logistics and research-and-development operations support.

Activity in recent years runs flat to growing — one award in 2023, nine in both 2024 and 2025 — with only one award (combined potential value $137 thousand) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating low near-term recompete exposure. By NAICS, the portfolio splits across Other Computer Related Services (12 awards), Software Publishers (9 awards), and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (6 awards), reflecting the vendor's dual positioning as a commercial software publisher and a government engineering support subcontractor. Total combined potential value across all awards stands at $1.8 million, though obligated dollars ($9.6 million) substantially exceed potential value, reflecting the vendor's mature customer relationships and repeated renewals with stable agencies.