$8,248,508

… That's the dollar amount of Defense Department business for Woodstock's weapons contractor in Fiscal Year 2018, according to usaspending.gov: Ametek Rotron's Woodstock, NY, weapons components plant received $2,037,271 in prime awards (where Rotron is the Pentagon's prime contractor), and $6,211,237 in sub-awards (where Rotron is a subcontractor).

M88 Hercules

2018 awards include $1,786,530 for parts for the M88 Hercules Armored Recovery Vehicle (pictured here at work in Afghanistan); $27,672 for parts for the MC-130H Combat Talon Aircraft, which the Air Force says "provides infiltration, exfiltration, and resupply of special operations forces and equipment in hostile or denied territory"; and many others.

MC-130H

As for the subcontracts, usaspending tells us that Rotron was a supplier in 2018 for most of the big names in weapons technology: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, GE Aviation Systems, Sikorsky, L3 Technologies, DRS Laurel Technologies, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and BAE.

Kellstrom Defense Aerospace: distributing made-in-Woodstock war machine components worldwide

In 2018, AMETEK Aerospace and Defense Thermal Management Systems division -- which includes the Ametek Rotron factory in Woodstock -- approved Kellstrom Defense Aerospace as its authorized military distributor for its Hughes-Treitler and Rotron products. "With the signing of this agreement, KDA is approved to solicit military spares and repair business globally, excluding Israel and Japan," says the press release.

UH-60 Black Hawk

This partnership "provides AMETEK with a worldwide network of sales professionals, distribution channels, and MRO capabilities that further enhances our global reach."

A Kellstrom brochure, boasting that "Kellstrom Defense is the respected global leader for defense aircraft sustainment", lists some of the "Supported Platforms" for the Rotron products which they are now touting to militaries worldwide: "C-130 [military transport aircraft], UH-1, UH-60, CH-53, CH-47, S-70 [these are various military helicopters made by Sikorsky, Bell, and Boeing], all land vehicles, and sea vessels".