Lockheed Martin

4905.121 - 4933.407 David Rosenthal

It turned out, like we were talking about a minute ago, that firing ICBMs from the deck of a surfaced ship, be it a submarine or otherwise, bad idea. Basically impossible. But firing missiles from under the ocean was doable. And Lockheed did it with the help of Silicon Valley. So in December 1955, the Navy awards this contract to Lockheed. The name of the project was Polaris.