{"id":35941,"date":"2023-06-18T04:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=35941"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:08:50","slug":"what-is-the-india-us-initiative-on-future-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-india-us-initiative-on-future-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the India, U.S. Initiative on Future Tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET)?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus Areas of iCET<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Progress on iCET<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, India and the United States unveiled a roadmap for enhanced collaboration in high-technology areas.<\/li>\n<li>This was part of the <strong>Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology<\/strong> (iCET) jointly announced by President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong> and Prime Minister <strong>Narendra Modi<\/strong> last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies is a <strong><u>framework agreed upon by India and the U.S. for cooperation on critical and emerging technologies<\/u><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These emerging technologies include <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong>, <strong>quantum computing<\/strong>, <strong>semiconductors<\/strong> and <strong>wireless telecommunication<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Minister Modi and President Biden first announced the framework on the side lines of the Quad meeting in Tokyo in May 2022.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched in January this year to strengthen their strategic partnership and drive technology and defence cooperation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Focus Areas of iCET<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Primarily, the <strong>iCET seeks to position New Delhi and Washington D.C. as \u201ctrusted technology partners\u201d<\/strong> to build supply chains and support the co-production and co-development of items.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key areas include \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting up a research agency partnership to drive collaboration in areas like Artificial Intelligence;<\/li>\n<li>Developing a new defence industrial cooperation roadmap to accelerate technological cooperation for joint development and production;<\/li>\n<li>Developing common standards in <strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Developing a roadmap to accelerate defence technological cooperation and \u2018innovation bridge\u2019 to connect <strong>defence startups<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the development of a <strong>semiconductor<\/strong> ecosystem;<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening cooperation on <strong>human<\/strong> <strong>spaceflight<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>Advancing cooperation on development in <strong>5G<\/strong> and <strong>6G<\/strong>; and<\/li>\n<li>Adopting <strong>OpenRAN network<\/strong> technology in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Progress on iCET<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India and the U.S. have made \u201csignificant progress\u201d in several key areas identified for collaboration since the launch of iCET.<\/li>\n<li>The two countries have already put in place the <strong>Quantum Coordination Mechanism<\/strong>, launched a public-private dialogue (PDD) on telecommunication to drive collaboration in OpenRAN, 5G and 6G.<\/li>\n<li>In March, India and the U.S. signed an MoU on establishing a <strong>semiconductor supply chain<\/strong> that paved the way for creating a semiconductor sub-committee.\n<ul>\n<li>The committee will review recommendations from an industry-led task force launched in connection with the iCET.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the defence front, the two countries are close to concluding a mega jet engine deal.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, a new initiative to advance cutting-edge technology cooperation, known as the <strong>India-U.S. Defence Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X)<\/strong>, is set to be launched.<\/li>\n<li>India and the U.S. have also concluded a roadmap for \u2018<strong>Defence Industrial Cooperation<\/strong>\u2019 to guide the policy direction for the next few years.<\/li>\n<li>The two countries have also established a <strong>Strategic Trade Dialogue<\/strong> to remove regulatory \u201cbarriers\u201d and review existing export control norms to take forward strategic technology and trade collaborations envisaged under iCET.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is quantum computing in simple terms?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Quantum computing is a rapidly-emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems too complex for classical computers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is a semiconductor and what is it used for?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A semiconductor substance lies between the conductor and insulator. It controls and manages the flow of electric current in electronic equipment and devices. As a result, it is a popular component of electronic chips made for computing components and a variety of electronic devices, including solid-state storage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/explained-what-is-the-india-us-initiative-on-future-tech\/article66980841.ece#:~:text=What%20is%20iCET%3F,computing%2C%20semiconductors%20and%20wireless%20telecommunication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained | What is the India, U.S. initiative on future tech?<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-us-india-icet-breaks-deadlock-on-critical-tech-task-force-for-jet-engine-ai-amp-semiconductors-3126955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Financial Express<\/u><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iCET is a framework for cooperation on critical and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941","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=35941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}