The Mitsuba system has its roots in two major technological ideas: China's Golden Shield Project and Everett's Limited Artificial Intelligence. The first government issued Request for Proposal was issued in November 2006 at a seminar of network security at the federal level. The initial idea was to secure existing government and military networks from outside influence, without constant human interaction. Developing an autonomous solution to network security would save money in the long term, and be more efficient than human network administrators. An advanced non-selfaware intelligence system was developed over the course of the next two and a half years. It was activated on April 5, 2010.