Strategic management in the defense system identifies the highest hierarchical goals from which lower development objectives are derived to be accomplished. For certain specific objectives to be accomplished, it is necessary to carry out research tasks. Not all research results are equally relevant for the defense system development. More important are those results the performance of which contributes more to the accomplishment of strategic goals in the defense system. That is why the assurance of research process quality indirectly brings the harmonization of the research results performance indicators with the highest defense system development objectives. In practice, the management of research process is often identified with the management of research task. To clarify the difference, the research process performance indicators have been defined regardless of the kind, type, and complexity of the research task. The achievement of the research process performance indicators prevents any errors that subsequently might be hard to correct.