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mGen, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1995. Initially, mGen focused on consulting with large corporations and government agencies to help facilitate the delivery of interactive media for training and communications initiatives. By the end of its first year in business, mGen had developed a client base that included Pitney Bowes, Sanders and Lockheed Martin. In the summer of 1996, mGen was awarded a contract by the United States Army to design a specification for a delivery system, which would be capable of dispersing interactive training to U.S. Army resident trainees at seventeen schoolhouse locations. The contract also required mGen to provide an evaluation and recommendation of a technical architecture that would scale to thousands of users while delivering full motion video to student desktops within the training LAN. In addition, video needed to be integrated into other interactive elements such as animation, audio, text, graphics and testing capabilities. In the fall of 1997, mGen delivered version 1.0 of mGen Enterprise to the U.S. Army. The technical architecture included a database that tracked all aspects of the system, including media elements, user status, testing results and streaming technologies. The system was implemented at the prototype facility located at Fort Eustis, Virginia and was approved by the U.S. Army as fulfilling all of the stated objectives. mGen's relationship and contact with the US Army, now known as the Classroom XXI program, still exists today. mGen's success with the Classroom XXI program led to the development of strategic relationships with companies such as Oracle and nCUBE. mGen was also contacted by a number of technology companies, including Real Networks, Silicon Graphics, Optivision, Minerva, Optibase, FORE Systems and Cabletron to integrate their broadband media capabilities into the mGen Enterprise interactive environment. In the fall of 1998, sales of mGen Enterprise began to outweigh requests for consulting services, therefore, the Company began to focus exclusively on the sale and development of its software. In March 2001, EDS awarded mGen, Inc. a three-year contract to provide distance learning and training to 800,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel, as part of a $6.9 billion Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) contract, the largest federal information technology contract in history.