I would really like this. At the moment, I have 4 ion pule ballistaes, 3 exotic pulsars and 4 relays that need to be removed when I level up. The weapons are such a pain to deal with (being on pages 2 and 3), I don't bother equipping them anymore. It sucks that I am stuck with these things installed but not wanting to use them because of the frustration of having to uninstall them all the time.

This would be a nice way to let us have our cake and eat it too. Personally, I would say put it somewhere in the middle of the tier rewards and move everything up by one. This is something you want to work at early on.

+1 I never have any of them on either because it is such a pain in the butt to deal with. I would love to have this option as well.

I think this would be a good idea if the mission reward program was expanded past what it is know would be a great finisher for it maybe.

I'm so used to pulling stuff off to reconfig to rank that it doesn't bother me that much anymore. I actually considered it a minor benefit because except for the last couple techs of relays, those things (and weapons) that pull energy off are cheap to repair. I guess it's more of a pain for some people than I thought; but since you can (if you want) pull the stuff off easily enough to raise max energy, it's not an overpowered benefit, just you don't have to *remember* to do it every time, so I think Dan might go for it. If the financial impact of not having to unequip relays is too much, he can just apply it to just the weapons only and it's still useful.

+1 to this idea. I'd say it could also be called a Charge Inducer or a Wave Containment Grid.
The bonus itself could be called "recovery" like:

Charge Inducer: +50 recovery (tool tip: reduces energy penalties)