With the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2018, launched in March 2019, the Congress of the United States authorized funding to design and build a Versatile Test Reactor (VTR). This paper describes the current state of the design, a snapshot, of the key systems that the VTR will rely upon to achieve its mission of irradiating a wide variety of fuels, materials, instruments, and sensors with fast neutrons at a high neutron flux.