Since the fuel cells are now a trend, a lifestyle, it has also gained its roots in the defense department. The missions carried out by the military are now focusing more on having the SFC fuel cells, which are lightweight and portable and soldiers can have it in their backpack. They also use to power the GPS, computer C4ISR, etc.

The basic purpose is to allow the soldiers to carry less weight and at the same time a more reliable energy source in the form of SFC cells that would allow them to run all their gadgets during the operation they are carrying out. Since defense department is a very sensitive one, and they cannot risk to have power sources they are unreliable, are very strongly moving to gear up all their electrical appliances with SFC fuel cells.

SFC is providing more focused solutions to military to address their specific needs for different kinds of operations and facilities, which definitely gives them a very high rank among other power generation sources.