India, US to advance cooperation in threat info sharing, vulnerability mitigation in energy and telecommunications networks

The connection said that some sides looked guardant to the November 2024 bilateral cyber engagement to heighten the US-India cyber practice framework. It added that the leaders besides noted the 2nd US-India Advanced Domains Defense Dialogue successful May 2024, during which the first-ever bilateral defence abstraction table-top workout was held.

As per the statement, President Biden welcomed the advancement towards India concluding procurement of 31 General Atomics MQ-9B (16 Sky Guardian and 15 Sea Guardian) remotely piloted craft and their associated equipment, to heighten the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities of India’s equipped forces crossed each domains. The declaration for the procurement was astir finalised earlier Modi’s visit.

Both the leaders spoke astir the advancement made nether the US-India Defense Industrial Cooperation Roadmap, including the collaboration to beforehand precedence co-production arrangements for pitchy engines, munitions, and crushed mobility systems. This was besides discussed during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s authoritative sojourn to the US past month.

They welcomed efforts to grow defence concern partnerships, including the teaming of Liquid Robotics and Sagar Defence Engineering for the co-development and co-production of unmanned aboveground conveyance systems, which fortify undersea and maritime domain awareness.

President Biden welcomed India’s determination to acceptable a azygous Goods and Services Tax of 5 per cent connected the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) sector, including connected each craft and craft motor parts, simplifying the taxation operation and paving the mode for gathering a beardown ecosystem for MRO services successful the country.

“The leaders besides encouraged the manufacture to foster collaboration and thrust innovation to enactment India’s efforts to go a starring aviation hub,” the connection said, adding that they welcomed commitments from the US manufacture to further summation India’s MRO capabilities, including for the repair of craft and unmanned aerial vehicles.

They praised the decision of the Security of Supply Arrangement betwixt the 2 countries past month, enhancing the communal proviso of defence goods and services. “Both leaders committed to beforehand ongoing discussions connected aligning their respective defence procurement systems to further alteration the reciprocal proviso of defence goods and services,” the connection read.

The leaders besides welcomed the decision of the memorandum of statement regarding the deployment of liaison officers and the commencement of the deployment of the archetypal liaison serviceman from India successful the US Special Operations Command past month.

They praised the teaming statement connected the C-130J Super Hercules craft precocious signed betwixt Lockheed Martin and Tata Advanced Systems Limited, 2 companies that co-chair the US-India CEO Forum. The agreement, the connection said, volition found a caller MRO installation successful India to enactment the readiness of the Indian fleet and planetary partners who run the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft.

The connection added that successful 2024, the governments successful some countries separately awarded much than $1 cardinal to US and Indian companies that developed technologies focused connected undersea communications and maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

A caller situation was announced astatine the astir caller INDUS-X Summit, which focused connected abstraction situational consciousness successful the debased Earth orbit (LEO).