Good morning
I'm sorry to disagree, it doesn't work as expected, there's a bug in that mission.
Either because the entire logistics research tree isn't visible, and if it shouldn't be shown in that mission then you shouldn't be given the mission to research a technology that you can't see, one of the two things is failing. I say this as a senior programmer that I am, something in the code is leaking.
I was able to complete the mission ignoring that research mission (I guess it doesn't add points for not completing it) but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth not being able to do it in addition to having wasted time looking for it in the tree, on the internet, until I found this post.