The DCNS development group has chartered the new Orange Team of 1995 to create a formal development methodology and develop an implementation plan for it. This document describes the requirements for such a methodology. This methodology will be referred to as the Hephaestus\ Process, or simply Hephaestus.
The target audience of this document is the DCNS development group and stakeholders in the development process such as management, consulting, support and documentation. It will likely have application outside of DCNS development, but exactly how it will fit into the new I/T framework at MIT remains to be seen.