"The Defense Energy Support Center, which is the Pentagon’s petroleum purchasing arm, hosted a Synthetic Fuels Industry Summit in mid-March in Anchorage."
Should you read the article, they're doing this because the Fairbanks CTL plant we reported earlier is a "separate endeavor".
And, a very interesting quote:
"For the last several years, the military has purchased synfuels from foreign countries, mostly Malaysia and South Africa, to test in aircraft in non-hostile environments. Aircraft will have to be certified to run on synfuels before the fuels can be widely used by the military."