WASHINGTON: The US needs to be not solely India’s safety accomplice of the primary resort but in addition its “premier accomplice” in its extraordinary progress story, the Pentagon has mentioned.
These remarks had been made by Pentagon Press Secretary Brig Gen Patrick Ryder on Wednesday whereas responding to a query on the just lately launched India-US initiative on essential rising applied sciences, which has a major defence element in it.
“The excessive degree of participation from throughout the US authorities, US business, and our universities is unprecedented, and sends a powerful sign that the USA needs not solely to be India’s safety accomplice of first resort – however to be the premier accomplice in India’s extraordinary progress story,” Ryder mentioned.
The Division of Defence is worked up to work with different US businesses and companions as a part of the White Home-led United States–India Initiative on Important and Rising Applied sciences (iCET), he mentioned.
“We sit up for sharing extra info on our defence cooperation with India as the brand new initiatives develop transferring ahead. These initiatives will speed up a shift from defence gross sales to defence joint manufacturing and improvement and promote integration between US and Indian defence companies,“ Ryder mentioned.
Earlier this month, iCET was launched on the route of US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who after their Tokyo assembly in Could 2022 introduced to raise and increase the strategic expertise partnership and defence industrial cooperation between the governments, companies, and educational establishments of the 2 international locations.
Below the iCET, the 2 international locations have recognized six areas of cooperation which would come with co-development and co-production, that will regularly be expanded to Quad, then to NATO, adopted by Europe and the remainder of the world.
In January, the Biden administration additionally mentioned that India is a crucial accomplice of alternative for the USA.
These remarks had been made by Pentagon Press Secretary Brig Gen Patrick Ryder on Wednesday whereas responding to a query on the just lately launched India-US initiative on essential rising applied sciences, which has a major defence element in it.
“The excessive degree of participation from throughout the US authorities, US business, and our universities is unprecedented, and sends a powerful sign that the USA needs not solely to be India’s safety accomplice of first resort – however to be the premier accomplice in India’s extraordinary progress story,” Ryder mentioned.
The Division of Defence is worked up to work with different US businesses and companions as a part of the White Home-led United States–India Initiative on Important and Rising Applied sciences (iCET), he mentioned.
“We sit up for sharing extra info on our defence cooperation with India as the brand new initiatives develop transferring ahead. These initiatives will speed up a shift from defence gross sales to defence joint manufacturing and improvement and promote integration between US and Indian defence companies,“ Ryder mentioned.
Earlier this month, iCET was launched on the route of US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who after their Tokyo assembly in Could 2022 introduced to raise and increase the strategic expertise partnership and defence industrial cooperation between the governments, companies, and educational establishments of the 2 international locations.
Below the iCET, the 2 international locations have recognized six areas of cooperation which would come with co-development and co-production, that will regularly be expanded to Quad, then to NATO, adopted by Europe and the remainder of the world.
In January, the Biden administration additionally mentioned that India is a crucial accomplice of alternative for the USA.
