The Defense Innovation Unit wants $15 million in fiscal year 2023 to kick-start a new research effort centered on the prototyping and deployment of commercial battery technologies for military purposes. The inclusion brings the outfit’s total research, development, test and evaluation spending request to $42.9 million -- a 60% increase from DIU’s current $26.7 million FY-22 RDT&E budget. Through the “defense advanced battery supply chain” program, as the effort is identified in the Pentagon’s budget justification books , DIU would...