Prime Minister Modi's visit to the United States next week will be truly historic and the visit will deliver substantial outcomes on semi conductors, defence and critical & emerging technology. That was the message from Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Advisor who was in Delhi for preparatory meetings ahead of the Prime Minister's state visit next week.
Narendra Modi will only be the third leader, who President Biden would be hosting for a state visit. On Wednesday, Sullivan said that hard work and celebrations will accompany this high level visit.
Sullivan said, the high level meetings between US and India next week would deliver results on a range of issues including, defence co production, semi conductors, AI, deployment of 5G, 6G and OpenRan. Both leaders will spend a lot of time together, he said.
Speaking to journalists Sullivan said, that there would be substantial results on India-US cooperation on semi conductor supply chains. "US and India are working on ways to promote semi conductor manufacturing in India. US has invested resources in reshoring semi conductor supply chain to US but we would like to contribute to semi conductor manufacturing in India. This is one area we would like to make rapid progress and show results", he said.
The US NSA also said that there would be announcements on training Indian engineers, designers, startups in every aspect of semi conductor manufacturing and value chains. There would be agreements between research organisations of India and US for work on future collaboration on semi conductor applications.
A multi billion dollar deal between GE and HAL is also likely to be signed during the Prime Minister's visit. Without commenting on the contours of the deal, Sullivan said,
"The President has directed every element of the US government to remove unnecessary barriers to defence technology cooperation with India. He wants to make good on the long standing promise to deepen cooperation on co production and co development. This includes co production of critical defence technology here in India."
"GE engine technology is an exquisite and important technology. We don't regard any one project as a sum total of the relationship. GE deal will build momentum for greater integration of defence supply chains, co develpopment, technology transfer which is in India and US interests."
Sullivan conceded that removing regulatory hurdles and easing export controls on transfer of defence technology to India was long past due and US was now focusing on removing these barriers through executive actions.
"There are legislative proposals to make adjustments to regulatory controls for tech transfer. We have had productive discussions with both Democrats and Republicans on these", he added.
Both leaders will also spend time on Artificial Intelligence. "AI is going to be so tranformative for our societies, economies and national security. It is important to align approach to AI and have joint research", he said.
Reacting to a Reuters report about sale of more Guardian drones to India, Sullivan said that US was talking to India about sale of defence material which would help India increase its maritime domain awareness.
First Published: Jun 14, 2023 5:37 PM IST
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