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Bloom Energy MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-10-06
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

[pre-2020] On 15 May 2014, Bloom Energy reported that the U.S. Department of Defense had deployed a 1.6 MW Bloom installation at the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland, for energy-security and mission-critical power objectives. The public sources reviewed did not establish whether that installation remains operational in 2026.1

In September 2026, the U.S. Army announced conditional commercial-power lease selections and named Indelible-Bloom for Fort Detrick, Maryland; Letterkenny Army Depot, Pennsylvania; and West Point, New York. The Army stated that formal lease agreements were still in their initial stages and described the projects as supporting installation power resilience and mission readiness.2

For Israel, the current B Clean Energy page describes the firm as Bloom Energy’s official representative in Israel, supplying Bloom fuel-cell technology to the Israeli energy market and supporting consultation, system design, installation and ongoing service. A public company-data record sourced from Israel’s Registrar of Companies identifies B CLEAN ENERGY (BLOOM) LTD, company no. 517157756, as an active Israeli private company incorporated on 5 May 2025.3, 4 The representative’s public page describes industrial energy applications and does not name an IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Prison Service, Border Police or other security customer.3

No public evidence identified of a Bloom Energy contract, tender award, framework agreement or memorandum with the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israel Prison Service, Israel Border Police or another Israeli state security body. No public evidence identified of Bloom Energy appearing in a SIBAT defence-export listing or an Israeli defence-contract announcement in the sources searched.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Bloom’s current microgrid product is a general-purpose stationary power platform that can operate independently of the grid and is marketed around business continuity, critical loads and outage resilience.5 That capability is inherently usable at military facilities, as the U.S. deployments above demonstrate, but the current product page does not identify a tactical, mil-spec or Israel-specific military variant.5

In September 2025, Bloom stated that the American Bureau of Shipping had type-approved its 65 kW Marine Power Module for onboard use, naming cruise ships, LNG carriers and long-distance cargo ships as example applications.6 The type approval establishes shipboard environmental qualification, but the cited Bloom material does not identify a naval combat application or Israeli military customer.6

Bloom’s 2025 Form 10-K describes its core platform as solid oxide fuel-cell and electrolyzer technology for distributed power and hydrogen markets; it does not identify a weapons, targeting or fire-control product line.7 no public evidence identified of a ruggedised/tactical Bloom product confirmed as sold to Israeli security forces, or of an Israel-specific military end-user certificate or export-control review for Bloom equipment.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

The reviewed Bloom and B Clean Energy materials describe stationary fuel-cell power systems and associated installation/service activity, rather than earth-moving, demolition or construction machinery.3, 5, 7

The 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database, the 2023 OHCHR update and the 2025 Special Rapporteur corporate report were checked for Bloom Energy; Bloom Energy was not found by name in those reviewed documents.8, 9, 10 That bounded name-check does not prove the absence of every indirect transaction.

No public evidence identified of Bloom equipment being used to construct, maintain or demolish structures in West Bank settlements, East Jerusalem, the occupied Syrian Golan, the separation barrier, checkpoints, detention facilities or Israeli military installations in occupied territory. No public evidence identified of a Bloom construction or engineering contract for settlement or military infrastructure.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

Bloom’s current leadership page and 2026 proxy identify Mary K. Bush as a current Bloom director; the proxy records that she served as a ManTech director from 2006 to 2022 and, from 2022 to 2026, as a director of Moose Holdings Inc., the Carlyle portfolio holding company for ManTech International.11, 12 Bloom’s own current biography separately records her 2006-2022 ManTech directorship.13 ManTech’s current corporate material describes technology work intended to increase U.S. warfighter capabilities.14 These facts establish a defence-industry governance connection for a Bloom director; the sources reviewed do not establish an Israeli defence role arising from that connection.11, 13, 12, 14

Bloom’s 2026 conflict-minerals report includes Israel in an aggregated appendix of possible countries of origin reported through its 3TG due-diligence process. The report expressly cautions that supplier responses may include more countries than can be directly linked to the sale of Bloom’s covered products.15 Accordingly, that disclosure does not establish an Israeli supplier, a specific Israeli-made Bloom component, or any defence end use.15

Bloom’s April 2026 proxy reported Ameriprise Financial at 10.7% of Class A common stock as of 27 February 2026, but a later Ameriprise Schedule 13G reported 8.1% as of 31 March 2026.12, 16 The later primary filing therefore does not support treating Ameriprise as a current ≥10% shareholder at that date.16

No public evidence identified of Bloom supplying components, sub-systems or specialist manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems or IMI/Elbit Land, or of a Bloom joint-development, co-production, technology-transfer or licensed-manufacturing programme with an Israeli defence prime.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

Bloom has documented U.S. military-base energy support: the [pre-2020] Fort Meade/NSA installation and the 2026 Army conditional selections concern resilient onsite power rather than weapons manufacture.1, 2

The current Israeli representative describes design, installation and ongoing support for energy customers but does not identify any military installation or security-service customer.3

No public evidence identified of Bloom providing base services to an IDF facility, detention centre or Israeli security installation, including in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, occupied Syrian Golan or Negev. No public evidence identified of Bloom performing defence-specific shipping, freight forwarding, port handling, catering, transport, waste management or telecommunications services for Israeli military cargo or forces.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

Bloom’s documented products in the reviewed primary materials are power-generation, microgrid, marine power and electrolyzer systems.5, 6, 7 The U.S. military evidence concerns installation power resilience and energy security rather than a weapons effect.1, 2

No public evidence identified of Bloom manufacturing or supplying small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, tactical drones, naval combat vessels, ammunition, explosives, propellants, warhead components, targeting systems, fire-control systems, precision-guidance electronics, military radar, weapons propulsion units, or components for Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, fighter aircraft, main battle tanks, warships or ballistic missiles for Israeli forces.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

Bloom’s 2026 conflict-minerals disclosure is a supply-chain due-diligence filing under U.S. securities rules and is not an export licence or military end-user authorisation.15 The defence-related public records located in this audit concern U.S. installation power, not an export-licensing decision for Israel.2

No public evidence identified of a government grant, denial, suspension or revocation of an export licence for Bloom products to an Israeli military/security end user; of an arms-embargo or sanctions-compliance enforcement action against Bloom concerning Israel; or of a judicial review or legal challenge concerning Bloom’s alleged defence supply to Israel.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The current authoritative-source checks produced no Bloom-specific military or settlement finding. Bloom Energy was not found by name in the reviewed 2025 A/HRC/59/23 Special Rapporteur report, the 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database A/HRC/60/19, or the 2023 OHCHR database update.8, 9, 10 The June 2024 PAX report on companies arming Israel and their financiers names major arms suppliers but does not name Bloom Energy.17 The July 2024 Al-Haq Business and Human Rights in Palestine booklet and the BDS Movement’s November/December 2024 corporate-priority guide were also checked without a Bloom Energy name match.18, 19

These list checks are bounded evidence only: A/HRC/59/23 itself states that the entities it names are a fraction of a wider corporate structure, and OHCHR’s database is limited to specified settlement-related activity categories.8, 9 Absence from those documents therefore is not proof that no indirect relationship exists.

Constructive-notice timing could not be meaningfully tested for an Israeli military/settlement relationship because no such in-scope relationship was established. The Israeli entity B CLEAN ENERGY (BLOOM) LTD was incorporated on 5 May 2025 and the current representative page confirms an Israel commercial channel after the 19 July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion and November 2024 ICC arrest warrants, but the public evidence reviewed identifies that channel as industrial/commercial energy activity and does not identify a military, security or settlement end user.3, 4

No public evidence identified of a defence-sector boycott/divestment campaign specifically targeting Bloom Energy for Israeli military supply, or of a Bloom policy statement, contract termination or Israel-specific military end-use commitment issued in response to such a campaign.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.bloomenergy.com/news/department-of-defense-uses-solid-oxide-fuel-cells-for-clean-energy-security/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. https://www.army.mil/article/295486/army_announces_conditional_lease_solicitation_awards_for_commercial_power_generation_securing_installation_power_resilience ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. https://b-energy-il.com/one-pager/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://taagidim.co.il/company/517157756 ↩ ↩2

  5. https://www.bloomenergy.com/microgrid/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.bloomenergy.com/blog/blooms-fuel-cells-provide-highly-efficient-power-generation-for-the-marine-ecosystem-and-now-have-abs-type-approval/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000162828026006516/be-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?l=en&s=A%2FHRC%2F59%2F23&t=pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/business-database-26sep25/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/OHCHRDATABASEOPT_300630.pdf ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.bloomenergy.com/leadership-board/ ↩ ↩2

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000162828026024237/be-20260408.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://www.bloomenergy.com/team/the-honorable-mary-k-bush/ ↩ ↩2

  14. https://www.mantech.com/mantech-securing-the-future/ ↩ ↩2

  15. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000119312526251628/d61094dex101.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1664703/000119312526225701/xslSCHEDULE_13G_X02/primary_doc.xml ↩ ↩2

  17. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩

  18. https://www.alhaq.org/cached_uploads/download/2024/07/04/business-and-human-rights-booklet-1720077751.pdf ↩

  19. https://bdsmovement.net/sites/default/files/2024-12/Guide%20to%20BDS%20Boycott%20%26%20Pressure%20Corporate%20Priority%20Targeting-30%20Nov%202024-Submitted%20by%20BDS%20movement.pdf ↩