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US and India Gov Begin R&D Partnership in Defense, Bio, Space, Telecom, & ICs (whitehouse.gov)
4 points by alephnerd 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Key Points:

- Unlocking a combined $90+ million in U.S. and Indian government funding over the next five years for the U.S.-India Global Challenges Institute that will forge high-impact university and research partnerships between U.S. and Indian institutions.

The US did a similar program with Chinese institutions in the 1980s that became the 985 Project

- Exploring opportunities for India’s participation in the Lunar Gateway Program

This is the new lunar space station the US is planning on launching as part of Artemis

- negotiations between GE Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for the co-production of GE F414-INS6 engines

India is in the process of manufacturing domestic knockoffs of the F-16 and F-22

- India’s planned acquisition of the MQ-9B platforms, the possible co-production of land warfare systems

- deploy high-quality, cost-effective Open RAN technology at scale

Basically an attempt to bypass Huawei by supporting a similar ecosystem in China

- collaboration in the critical minerals sector like bilateral collaboration in technologies for Neodymium-iron-boron metal, alloy and magnet making

Trying to diversify away from China's monopoly in the refining and alloying space

- co-investing in a lithium resource project in South America and a rare earths deposit in Africa

Trying to diversity away from China's monopoly in the rare earth mining space (especially funding)

- Celebrating the launch of a Track 1.5 Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain Consortium – the “Bio-5” on June 5 with key industry and government stakeholders from the United States, India, the ROK, Japan, and the European Commission to enhance resilience in supply chains for active pharmaceutical ingredients, key starting materials, and foster high-impact R&D collaboration

Trying to minimize Chinese dominance in API manufacturing.




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