India, US discuss ways to boost collaboration in critical, emerging defence tech

NEW DELHI: India and the US person discussed ways to fortify collaboration successful “critical and emerging defence technologies” to conscionable the evolving requirements astatine a cardinal gathering hosted here, officials said.Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) hosted the 24th Indo-US Joint Technical Group Plenary Meeting successful New Delhi connected Feb 3 and 4, they said. As per the statement, the plenary was conducted successful enactment with the imaginativeness and argumentation guidance of the model for India-US large defence concern signed by defence curate Rajnath Singh and the US caput of warfare Pete Hegseth successful Oct 2025. The delegations besides reviewed the ongoing practice successful defence subject and technology, discussed associated challenges, and examined proposals to further fortify collaboration successful captious and emerging defence technologies to conscionable the evolving requirements.The connection further noted that the discussions besides focused connected enhancing the information of university-affiliated probe centres, defence laboratories and industries successful cooperative probe and improvement initiatives. Additionally, the gathering explored imaginable collaboration betwixt DRDO, and the defence innovation portion nether the innovation span model and concluded with the signing of a task agreement.

The gathering was co-chaired by manager wide (production coordination and services interaction), DRDO, Chandrika Kaushik, and adjunct caput of warfare for captious technologies, bureau of the nether caput of warfare for probe and engineering, Michael Francis Dodd, the defence ministry said.