&lt;p&gt;In FY15, the HRS Rover Technologies will begin design of a prototype rover designed for the lunar surface, begin development of resource efficient navigation software that will operate on existing space qualified computing systems, and will begin development of rover operational tools to operate the rover under time delay.&amp;nbsp; The ultimate purpose of the RP rover is to support prospecting and processing of volatiles on the lunar surface.&amp;nbsp; This work follows preliminary concepts developed by HRS for AES during FY14, and will have four wheel modules on the rover, with each wheel module having independent propulsion, steering and active suspension.&amp;nbsp; The rover will have navigation cameras on a mast for longer duration planning and hazard cameras under the belly of the rover for close-in reactive hazard detection.&amp;nbsp; For the lunar environment, the rover will have radiation hardened motor control and avionics, will use conduction cooled components and will have means to reject heat to the environment under vacuum conditions.&amp;nbsp; The Resource Prospector Design Reference Mission requires the surface element (rover plus payload) to operate in a Permanently Shadowed Region for up to 6 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rover will have active suspension, 4 wheel propulsion, and offset &amp;ldquo;crab&amp;rdquo; steering.&amp;nbsp; The combination of these three systems enables the rover to operate in soft regolith by providing the ability to use a combination of the offset steering and active suspension to lift a stuck wheel from the regolith re-position the wheel and continue roving.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of FY15, the Rover Technologies task will have generated a functional prototype rover designed for operations under a 1G environment, with designs focused on a path towards a lunar environment.&amp;nbsp; This prototype will be available for functional testing with integrated Science payloads and will be available for testing in rockyards and gravity offloaded conditions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also in FY15, development and customization of navigation software will begin.&amp;nbsp; This effort will involve researching which parts of the existing HRS developed rovers are applicable in the RP mission requirements, then prototyping this work using the existing KRex rover.&amp;nbsp; Additionally, through a combination of initial KRex testing and then RP rover testing, software for planning, executing, monitoring and archiving roving activities will be developed as part of the Rover Technologies task.&amp;nbsp; Through these development cycles, the rover software is planned to be at TRL 6 prior to project RP PDR.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Current plans show the rover prototype will undergo vibration testing, then component and subassemblies will undergo radiation and thermal vacuum testing during FY16.&amp;nbsp; Post environmental testing, subsystems will be selectively upgraded based on test results, then re-tested.&amp;nbsp; At the end of this development cycle, Rover Technologies (including motor controllers, actuators navigation s/w, remote driving tools) are planned to be at TRL 6.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many of the core technologies will leverage prior STMD investment, but will need updating, further customization for mission requirements, and to be environmentally tested per RP mission environmental specification document, RPM-SPEC-0001 Environments Specification.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;