EMA Design Automation, Inc.

EMA Design Automation, Inc., a minority-owned, veteran-owned, and Hispanic American-owned small business based in Rochester, New York, distributes electronic design automation (EDA) software licenses, maintenance, and technical support services to the Department of Defense, NASA, and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The company operates as an authorized Cadence Channel Partner, specializing in OrCAD, Allegro, PSpice, Microwave Office, and Blueprint software products for printed circuit board design, circuit simulation, and RF/microwave component engineering. EMA competes predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-asides, though Total Small Business designations appear on roughly 15% of awards; the vendor is a child of Cadence Design Systems Inc.

EMA's customer concentration is heavily Navy-skewed. The top five customer components account for 45% of awards by count and 58% of combined potential value, led by the Naval Air Warfare Center (79 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value), the Office of Naval Research (61 awards, $1.5 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (72 awards, $904 thousand), the Defense Microelectronics Activity (13 awards, $1.3 million), and NASA's Shared Services Center (18 awards, $431 thousand). The two rankings track closely — the Naval Air Warfare Center dominates both volume and dollars — reflecting a sustained incumbent position on recurring software license renewals across Navy engineering centers and weapons systems commands. Representative work includes a $256.8 thousand sole-source renewal of OrCAD, Allegro, and Blueprint software licenses to the Naval Air Warfare Center awarded in October 2025 (ultimate completion October 2026), a $209.3 thousand software maintenance renewal to the same customer awarded in October 2024, an $85.4 thousand ONR license renewal awarded in November 2024, and a $34.5 thousand NASA Shared Services Center renewal for OrCAD network licenses awarded in July 2025. A $39.4 thousand NASA OrCAD maintenance renewal was awarded in February 2026.

Activity has been variable across the past five years — seven awards in 2022, five in 2023, eleven in 2024, eight in 2025, and two in early 2026 — with three awards (combined potential value $360 thousand) reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. The combined potential value across all 597 awards in the source data (588 prime, nine sub) stands at $11.1 million, against $12 million obligated, reflecting the sub-million purchase-order nature of most awards. The top parent vehicles are minimal — an IDC with two task orders and two BPAs with single task orders each — because EMA's work flows through direct purchase orders rather than standing IDIQs or GWACs.

EMA's subcontractor footprint is small (nine sub-awards, 2% of total). Recent subs include work under Peraton Inc. on the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract IV (NSROC IV) for OrCAD PCB design maintenance and services awarded in March and April 2025, a W R Systems LTD sub for navigation systems engineering and OrCAD software support awarded in April 2025, a Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies sub on the National Security Campus operations contract awarded in October 2024, a KBR Wyle Services sub for engineering services awarded in April 2024, and a Sierra Nevada Company Big Safari sub awarded in February 2024. The sub-award dollar magnitudes are not disclosed in the source, but the scope language indicates EMA supplies EDA software licenses and maintenance support rather than engineering labor to these prime relationships.

EMA's award footprint is concentrated in software publisher (145 awards) and other computer-related services (289 awards) NAICS categories, reflecting its role as a Cadence software distributor. Nearly 85% of awards (by PSC code) are information technology software purchases (300 awards) and software maintenance service plans (33 awards), with the remainder split across maintenance/repair and data conversion work.

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