Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the United States where he will address the US Congress along with the various meetings with US leaders and industry heads. Much expectations have been built back home for the outcome of the visit and the US industry is also quite excited at the prospects of cooperation in the business front expanding in many horizons.
One of the major factors of such prospects is the focus on technology cooperation across many areas including the strategic avenues of defence, space, cyber security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum computing, advanced materials, semiconductors, next-gen telecom, and biotech.
The bilateral strategic partnership between India and the US practically was established with the signing of the Next Step in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) agreement in 2005. Post the agreement, many avenues of technology cooperation started primarily in the nuclear and defence sectors and India purchased many US defence equipment and platforms.