I assume you are referring to military research and improvement projects, and it would be treated the same way other projects will be done, starting with initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure.
Military projects will have non-traditional enviroments, power games, and internal and external forces, in which project manager may simply not be able to face due to the hierarchy. Therefore, there will be a need to focus work on the governance of the project prior to the kick-off, and try to get the high ranks buy-in.
I think Tamer Malakha's is very intelligent since it diverts form complex aspects regarding conflicts, such as counter-information, deception, which can turn even the most accurate planing into large faillures. Again the answer should regard technical aspects, such as material resitance, since by excellence most of the mechanical, electronical, data aquisition improvements have been developed for military pruposes.
The military standards are high level, since vehicles and instruments must resist to harsh conditions of temperature humidity, salinity, sand, mud etc. normally these appliances can be downgraded to civil use, or upgraded to astronautical use depending on type of materials and tests being done after. The costs differ very much from a military appliance like a metal detector suppose100,00 USD, to the metal detector for a civilian purposes10,00 USD, to the outer space metal detector10.000,00 USD. These3 values are mere examples to express the exponential cost progression.
Again most most of today's protocols for project management are the result of military research and perhaps the most important ones are the base of modern project management:
J. E. Kelly and M. R. Walker, Scheduling activities to satisfy resource constraints
J. D. Wiest, The scheduling of large projects with limited resources
History of project management tell us that origin of project management itself is military. Military projects are not profitable and based on accomplishment of goal/objective only.
