
SAN DIEGO– A DIU official here last week underscored the importance of the increasing Navy demand for energy storage as new systems come online, with a recent solicitation lasting only weeks. “The Navy approached us about replacing one of the weapons systems on the [Zumwalt-class] DDG-1000 with large scale energy storage. And that's an electric ship so we said, yeah, we think we could do that. It was the fastest solicitation to award in my portfolio…it was a month or…