SPHERES Satellite an Supporting Hardware

The Naval Research Laboratory intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competitive basis with Aurora Flight Sciences Corp., Manassas VA., for a SPHERES spacecraft simulator vehicle and a SPHERES Goggles V. 2 expansion unit and supporting Hardware. The SPHERES spacecraft is currently operating onboard the International Space Station. SPHERES is a proprietary design of Aurora Flight Sciences, Inc. in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Space Systems Laboratory. The SPHERES laboratory simulator must be a form fit and function simulator of the SPHERES spacecraft.