{"id":20672,"date":"2024-09-15T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T06:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2025-04-06T02:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:22:30","slug":"indus-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indus-x\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the U.S.-India Defense Accelerator Ecosystem (INDUS-X)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About INDUS-X Summit:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in 2023<\/strong> during the state visit of the Prime Minister of <strong>India to the US.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To expand strategic technology partnerships and defense industrial cooperation between governments, businesses, and academic institutions in India and the US.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>INDUS X will be a defence innovation bridge, which will inter-alia, include Joint Challenges, Joint Innovation Fund, Academia engagement, Industry-startup connect, investment by private entities in defence projects, mentoring by experts and niche technology projects etc.<\/li>\n<li>It will focus on advancing <strong>high-tech cooperation<\/strong> and fostering joint research, development, and production opportunities in the defence sector.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to <strong>explore possibilities<\/strong> for <strong>co-producing jet engines<\/strong>, long-range artillery, and infantry vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>The INDUS-X initiative is being steered by <strong>Innovations for Defence Excellence<\/strong> (iDEX) on behalf of the Ministry<strong> of Defence and Defence Innovation Unit<\/strong> (DIU) under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is Innovations for Defence Excellence?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the flagship scheme of the <strong>Ministry of Defence, Govt of India<\/strong>, <strong>launched in 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The objective of the scheme is to cultivate an innovation ecosystem in the Defence and Aerospace sector by collaborating with startups, innovators, MSMEs, incubators, and academia.<\/li>\n<li>iDEX offers grants and support for R&amp;D with significant potential for future adoption in Indian defence and aerospace.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong> It will be funded and managed by a \u2018<strong>Defence Innovation Organization<\/strong> (DIO)\u2019 which has been formed as a \u2018not for profit\u2019 company as per the Companies Act 2013 for this purpose, by the two founder members i.e., Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs): HAL and BEL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Mission DefSpace?<\/h3>\n<p>It was launched by the Prime Minister during DefExpo in October 2022.The goal of Mission DefSpace is to make India Atmanirbhar in defence technologies in the space domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2054372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Third edition of INDUS-X Summit concludes in California<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDUS-X Summit was launched in 2023 during the state visit of the Prime Minister of India to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}