National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his American counterpart Jake Sullivan earlier this week led the inaugural assembly of the US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) in Washington DC. The iCET was introduced in May 2022 following a gathering between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden.

Doval was accompanied by Indian envoy to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu and several other highly-placed officers from the Government of India in addition to the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Sullivan was additionally accompanied by highly-placed officers from the US authorities and in addition the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Doval, Sullivan and the highly-placed officers who participated within the assembly mentioned alternatives the place each nations can lengthen their cooperation in vital and rising applied sciences.

The officers recognized fields of biotechnology, superior supplies and uncommon earth processing know-how as areas for future cooperation.

India and the US may even work collectively to discover tasks associated to jet engines, munition associated applied sciences and different methods under a brand new bilateral Defense Industrial Cooperation Roadmap.

The United States will assessment the appliance from General Electric to collectively produce jet engines that would energy jet plane operated and produced indigenously by India.

Another necessary facet of the assembly was the will to construct resilient semiconductor provide chains.

The US is perturbed by China’s developments within the semiconductor trade and has introduced a number of measures to counter its development as a result of China can use its chip trade to regulate international provide chains, posing nationwide safety and navy threats to different nations.

The highly-placed officers mentioned how, with help from the US, India can strengthen its position inside the international semiconductor worth chain. India and the US will collaborate to develop semiconductor design, manufacturing, and fabrication ecosystems in India.

The US and India will work collectively to advertise the event of a talented workforce which can help international semiconductor provide chains.

A activity power has been organized by the US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in partnership with the India Electronics Semiconductor Association (IESA) with participation from the Government of India Semiconductor Mission to develop a “readiness assessment” to establish near-term trade alternatives and facilitate longer-term strategic growth of complementary semiconductor ecosystems.

The officers additionally mentioned the prospect of deepening connectivity throughout innovation ecosystems of each nations. Sullivan and Doval, each famous that India and the US ought to set up ‘innovation bridges’ in key sectors and in addition by expos, hackathons, and pitch periods.

Both nations underlined the significance of resolving points associated to regulatory boundaries and enterprise and expertise mobility in each nations by a standing mechanism under iCET as effectively.

Furthermore, each nations have agreed to additional enhance cooperation between governments, trade and academia by the next steps:

• India and US will lengthen their collaboration within the fields of synthetic intelligence, quantum applied sciences and superior wi-fi through new implementation association which will probably be signed between US’ National Science Foundation and Indian science companies
• To additional facilitate analysis and trade collaboration, an Indo-US Quantum Coordination Mechanism will probably be established with participation from trade, academia and authorities
• Both nations will develop widespread requirements and benchmarks for reliable AI and make sure that these requirements and benchmarks are aligned with democratic values, the press launch from the White House stated.
• India and the US may even collaborate on High Performance Computing (HPC) and the US Congress will decrease boundaries to US exports of HPC know-how and supply code to India.

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