{"id":30135,"date":"2025-02-15T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30135"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:46:58","slug":"us-india-compact-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/us-india-compact-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"US India COMPACT Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>US-India COMPACT Initiative Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the President of the USA and Prime Minister of India launched the U.S.-India COMPACT initiative.<\/p>\n<h2>About US-India COMPACT Initiative<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Catalyzing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce &amp; Technology<\/strong>\u00a0(COMPACT) initiative will drive transformative change across key pillars of cooperation.<\/li>\n<li>It is a framework that will lay the foundation for\u00a0<strong>deepening military partnerships<\/strong>, with a clear focus on\u00a0<strong>technology, trade, and defence<\/strong>\u00a0industrial cooperation.<\/li>\n<li>Under this initiative, they committed to a results-driven agenda with initial outcomes this year to demonstrate the level of trust for a mutually beneficial partnership.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key features of US-India COMPACT Initiative<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Defence Procurements &amp; Regulatory Reforms:<\/strong>\u00a0A new\u00a0<strong>ten-year Framework for the US-India<\/strong>\u00a0Major Defense Partnership, with the US pledging additional defence sales and co-production initiatives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advancing Defence Technologies &amp; Military Collaboration:\u00a0<\/strong>To accelerate cooperation in space, air defence, missile systems, maritime, and undersea operations. The launch of the\u00a0<strong>Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance<\/strong>\u00a0(ASIA) will spur innovation in AI-enabled counter-UAS and maritime defence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic &amp; Trade Expansion: Under this component both countries\u00a0<\/strong>aim to double bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030 under \u201cMission 500.\u201d They plan to negotiate the first phase of a Bilateral Trade Agreement by fall 2025, focusing on fair trade, national security, and job creation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strengthening Technology &amp; Innovation Ties:\u00a0<\/strong>The launch of the US-India\u00a0<strong>TRUST initiative<\/strong>\u00a0will boost cooperation in defence, AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotechnology, energy, and space.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boosting Space Cooperation &amp; Critical Minerals Partnership:<\/strong>\u00a0To deepen space collaboration includes the introduction of\u00a0<strong>INDUS Innovation,<\/strong>\u00a0inspired by the INDUS-X platform, which will drive academic and industrial partnerships in space and emerging tech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Space Collaboration in 2025:\u00a0<\/strong>NASA and ISRO partner via AXIOM to send the first Indian astronaut to the ISS and expedite the NISAR dual-radar satellite launch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>US-India COMPACT Initiative FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the US India initiative on critical and emerging technologies?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>United States\u2013India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology, or iCET, is a collaborative framework established by the United States and India to enhance cooperation in developing fields of technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is Axiom-4 Mission (Ax-4)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Ax-4 is the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It is organized by Axiom Space in collaboration with NASA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/world-news\/us-india-military-cooperation-key-takeaways-from-the-modi-trump-talks\/3748963\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-India COMPACT Initiative is a framework that will lay the foundation for deepening military partnerships, with a clear focus on technology, trade, and defence industrial cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30135","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\/30135","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=30135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}