Later, Librascope became a manufacturer of early digital computers sold in both the business and defense markets. It hired
Stan Frankel, a
Manhattan Project veteran and early
ENIAC programmer, to design the
LGP-30 desk computer in 1956.
In 1964 Librascope's Avionic Equipment Division at San Marcos has been shifted to the Aerospace Group, GPI as the West Coast facility of the
Kearfott Division.[1]
Librascope was eventually purchased by
Singer Corporation and moved into the manufacture of marine systems and land-based C3 (Command, Control, Communication) systems for the international defense industry. The company specialized in fire control systems for torpedoes, though they continued to work on a variety of other smaller military contracts through the 1970s.
After Singer was taken over by
corporate raiderPaul Bilzerian, the company was sold to
Loral Space & Communications in 1992. The division was eventually sold to
Lockheed Martin and was eventually absorbed into the Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, but is now called Lockheed Martin NE&SS—Undersea Systems.
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