In March 2001, EDS awarded mGen a five-year contract to provide distance learning and training to 800,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. The award is part of EDS's $6.9 billion Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) contract, which is the largest federal information technology contract in history.

mGen presented EDS with a three phased approach for NMCI to execute its current and future training missions through the utilization of mGen Enterprise technology. mGen's winning proposal included the latest in Web and device technology in order to deploy a training system that was scalable, easy to use, flexible, feature rich and collaborative in nature.

Today, the mGen Enterprise system is hosted at the Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, VA. The system is fully integrated into the NMCI security and IT infrastructure, as well as the Navy Information Portal system, and will provide distance learning and training to 800,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. As the program evolves, mGen will continue to work with NMCI to build upon the core strategy, which is to form a marriage of both hardware and software to create a state of the art learning system, which includes advanced content delivery network technologies and multimedia asset distribution and management. The EDS-Navy and Marine Corps partnership will improve the onshore information technology services for Department of the Navy civilians, sailors and marines. Through consolidation, enhanced technology and enterprise-wide centralized management, this performance-based contract will increase the quality of service at the 300 Navy and Marine Corps bases throughout the U.S., Iceland, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while at the same time significantly reducing costs.

" mGen Enterprise is an innovative, dynamic and robust technology that can serve the Navy's needs today and can scale to meet a variety of the Navy's distance learning requirements in the future. It allows us to develop a strong technical solution to distribute training across the Intranet and launch a variety of content to NMCI users."

NMCI Program Manager