{"id":4113,"date":"2023-03-11T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:12:22","slug":"what-is-the-us-india-initiative-on-critical-and-emerging-technology-icet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-us-india-initiative-on-critical-and-emerging-technology-icet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the National Security Advisors of India and the US led the inaugural meeting of the iCET in Washington, DC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the U.S.-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was l<strong>aunched<\/strong> by the US President and Indian Prime Minister <strong>on the sidelines of the Quad summit on May 2022.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Goal<\/strong>: To <strong>elevate and expand Indo-U.S. strategic technology partnership and defense industrial cooperation<\/strong> between the governments, businesses, and academic institutions of the two countries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The initiative will be <strong>spearheaded by the National Security Council Secretariat<\/strong> in India and the <strong>US National Security Council<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative would help <strong>forge links<\/strong> between the government, academia, and industry <strong>in areas such as AI, quantum computing<\/strong>, 5G\/6G, biotech, space, and <strong>semiconductors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Under iCET, the two sides have identified <strong>six focus areas<\/strong> of co-development and co-production:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>strengthening <strong>innovation ecosystems;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>defense innovation<\/strong> and technology cooperation;<\/li>\n<li>resilient <strong>semiconductor supply chains<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>space<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEM<\/strong> (science, technology, engineering, and math) talent;<\/li>\n<li><strong>next-generation telecom<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is quantum computing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing is a multidisciplinary field comprising aspects of computer science, physics, and mathematics that utilizes quantum mechanics to solve complex problems faster than on classical computers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/india-us-relaunch-commercial-dialogue-on-supply-chain-establish-semiconductor-partnership-11678461117601.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India, US relaunch commercial dialogue on supply chain, establish semiconductor partnership<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-India iCET aims to expand Indo-U.S. strategic technology partnership and defense industrial cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4113","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\/4113","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=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}