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.#Thread: @SecDef Austin's India visit: Held bilat with @rajnathsingh in the morning. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 concluded a roadmap for Defence Industrial Cooperation which will fast-track tech coop & coproduction in areas like air combat & land mobility systems; ISR, munitions & undersea domain... 
Roadmap, aims to change the paradigm for cooperation between U.S. and Indian defense sectors, including a set of specific proposals that could provide India access to cutting-edge technologies and support India’s defense modernization plans: US statement
.@SecDef & @rajnathsingh also pledged to review regulatory hurdles impeding closer industry-to-industry cooperation and to initiate negotiations on 'Security of Supply Arrangement and a Reciprocal Defense Procurement' agreement which will promote long-term supply chain stability
India-US Defense Acceleration Ecosystem INDUS-X, new initiative to advance cutting-edge tech coop to b launched by @USIBC Jun 21, to complement existing G-2-G collab by promoting innovative partnerships b/w 🇺🇸&🇮🇳 companies, investors, startup accelerators & academic reserch inst
Secretary Austin and Minister Singh also committed to strengthen operational collab across all military services with an eye to supporting 🇮🇳’s leading role as a security provider in #IndoPacific. Discussed new opp to strengthen info sharing n increase coop in the maritime domain
On this note, Secretary Austin welcomed India’s leadership role in the #Quad #IndoPacific Maritime Domain Awareness Initiative #IPMDA, which will provide cutting-edge domain awareness capability to countries across the Indo-Pacific region: US statement
India-US partnership is critical for ensuring a free, open and rules-bound #IndoPacific region. We look forward to closely work with the US across the domains for capacity building and further consolidating our strategic partnership: @rajnathsingh after the talks
Sec Austin met NSA Doval, exchanged views about regional n global security issues of concern, including maritime security in #IOR. Secretary welcomed NSA’s perspective about shared security interests and objectives, including his ideas for greater maritime collaboration: DoD
.@SecDef Austin reached India on Sunday evening from Singapore on a two-day visit. On Monday, he was given a tri-service guard of honour before the bilateral meeting and delegation level talks
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