Sunday, February 3, 2019

$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.

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