Research
--#1: Project OMEGA
--#2: Project NANO
--#3: Project VARIABLE STRUCTURE
--#4: Project FIRE STARTER
--#5: Project NTAP 2.0

Being hurt less and healing faster are main priorities for me. From what I can tell in the first mission, either you get wounded and could do with some healing or you're just fucked. Everyone benefits from extra protection and better healing tech.

Hitting harder comes later, so fire weapons and bigger mechs can wait. When it comes to NTAP, I'm extremely wary about these unknown effects the upgrade offers.

Development
--#1: Project LEGIONAIRE
--#2: Project SHIELD
--#3: Project ALPHA
--#4: Project MECHANICAL WARHORSE
--#5: Project PLUSHIE

Unlike Research, the Development side of things is more current and will help us sooner rather than later. This means, to me, that better defenses are a huge focus on my choices in this list. Armor upgrades are good, and Project SHIELD's important for two of our mission's three teams as well as anyone in general.

ALPHA and MECHANICAL WARHORSE are both big helps, but can wait. PLUSHIE doesn't fit our next mission at all, so that's the bottom of my list.