 Realizing that the gap needed to be closed, the Federation instituted Project V (short for "Project Victory"), a development program that would produce a countering Federation mobile suit design, with the capability for mass-production a mandatory requirement.While the ultimate result of the program was the mass-produced RGM-79 GM series, the engineers in the project tested several design concepts for the mass-production units in the RX-78 series.Some of the developments in the RX-78 models were later incorporated into the GM line, but many were scrapped due to cost and/or complexity.