Washington, The relationship between India and the United States is not only bipartisan but also long-lasting, said former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, asserting that whoever comes to power next year will realize that this is the most important relationship.
Rice, who is currently director of the prestigious Hoover Institution, made these remarks during the India-US Defense Acceleration Ecosystem Summit. (INDUS-X) at Stanford this week, hosted by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), in collaboration with Stanford. The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Hoover University and the Hoover Institution.
"The US-India relationship is not just bipartisan, it is long-standing. Whoever occupies the White House in January 2025 will realize that this is the most important relationship," he said. "There is a lot of potential for state-to-state cooperation." United States and India on defense, interoperability and technology partnerships. There is a lot of work we can do on the defense capability side," said Rice, who served as secretary of state from 2005 to 2009.
The two-day event, held on September 9 and 10, brought together leading defense policymakers from Washington and New Delhi with a central focus on strengthening innovative partnerships in defense and advanced technology, according to a press release .
Sharing the dais with Rice, USISPF President John Chambers echoed her optimism and confidence in the relationship, saying: "I have been the biggest bull in India for decades. You can see the opportunity of two countries that think alike and creativity and innovation coming together." "I believe it will not only be the relationship that will define the next century, but it will define the pace of innovation for the world, will it be inclusive in that innovation and how the relationship could change the standard of living of every person in India and for every person in the United States,” Chambers said.
Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State, said expanding the US partnership with India is one of the most strategically important efforts we have made in the Biden-Harris administration."
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's successful state visit in 2023, he said: "From the stars to the sea, no corner of the human enterprise is left untouched by the cutting-edge work we are doing together. Successive administrations, in Washington and New Delhi, We have invested time and political capital to take this partnership to ever greater heights, but in the last year, I would like to say, our partnership has reached "escape velocity." Today our countries are more closely aligned than ever. General Stephen N. Whiting, Commander of the United States Space Command, spoke about deeper collaboration between the United States and India in the space sector.
"At US Space Command, we like to say that space is a team sport. Given the vastness of space and its importance to societies, no country, no command, service, department, agency or company can achieve what needs to be done. In space alone. That's why we employ a joint, combined and associated approach to space operations,” he said.
"Our relationship with India is a key component of this approach. Since 2019, we have signed a space data sharing agreement with the government of India, focused on space flight safety and space awareness services and information. space domain. We have also signed agreements with three commercial companies based in India,” said General Whiting. In his remarks, he highlighted how the cooperation between the United States and India under the initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) ) has generated closer space cooperation between the respective space agencies of NASA and ISRO and called for building on existing space cooperation.
The INDUS-X initiative is led by Innovations for Defense Excellence (iDEX) of the Ministry of Defense of India, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) of the Department of Defense of the United States. Joined.
At the summit, IDEX and DIU signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), along with the publication of the "INDUS-X Impact Report: A Year of Progress", authored by Vikram Singh and Sameer Lalwani of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The summit also included the presentation of the book “Unit X,” written by Raj Shah, managing partner of Shield Capital and former director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit.
As many as 25 aerospace and defense startups from both countries showcased their cutting-edge technologies and innovations and presented them to investors, venture capitalists and officials.
Rice, who is currently director of the prestigious Hoover Institution, made these remarks during the India-US Defense Acceleration Ecosystem Summit. (INDUS-X) at Stanford this week, hosted by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), in collaboration with Stanford. The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Hoover University and the Hoover Institution.
"The US-India relationship is not just bipartisan, it is long-standing. Whoever occupies the White House in January 2025 will realize that this is the most important relationship," he said. "There is a lot of potential for state-to-state cooperation." United States and India on defense, interoperability and technology partnerships. There is a lot of work we can do on the defense capability side," said Rice, who served as secretary of state from 2005 to 2009.
The two-day event, held on September 9 and 10, brought together leading defense policymakers from Washington and New Delhi with a central focus on strengthening innovative partnerships in defense and advanced technology, according to a press release .
Sharing the dais with Rice, USISPF President John Chambers echoed her optimism and confidence in the relationship, saying: "I have been the biggest bull in India for decades. You can see the opportunity of two countries that think alike and creativity and innovation coming together." "I believe it will not only be the relationship that will define the next century, but it will define the pace of innovation for the world, will it be inclusive in that innovation and how the relationship could change the standard of living of every person in India and for every person in the United States,” Chambers said.
Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State, said expanding the US partnership with India is one of the most strategically important efforts we have made in the Biden-Harris administration."
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's successful state visit in 2023, he said: "From the stars to the sea, no corner of the human enterprise is left untouched by the cutting-edge work we are doing together. Successive administrations, in Washington and New Delhi, We have invested time and political capital to take this partnership to ever greater heights, but in the last year, I would like to say, our partnership has reached "escape velocity." Today our countries are more closely aligned than ever. General Stephen N. Whiting, Commander of the United States Space Command, spoke about deeper collaboration between the United States and India in the space sector.
"At US Space Command, we like to say that space is a team sport. Given the vastness of space and its importance to societies, no country, no command, service, department, agency or company can achieve what needs to be done. In space alone. That's why we employ a joint, combined and associated approach to space operations,” he said.
"Our relationship with India is a key component of this approach. Since 2019, we have signed a space data sharing agreement with the government of India, focused on space flight safety and space awareness services and information. space domain. We have also signed agreements with three commercial companies based in India,” said General Whiting. In his remarks, he highlighted how the cooperation between the United States and India under the initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) ) has generated closer space cooperation between the respective space agencies of NASA and ISRO and called for building on existing space cooperation.
The INDUS-X initiative is led by Innovations for Defense Excellence (iDEX) of the Ministry of Defense of India, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) of the Department of Defense of the United States. Joined.
At the summit, IDEX and DIU signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), along with the publication of the "INDUS-X Impact Report: A Year of Progress", authored by Vikram Singh and Sameer Lalwani of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The summit also included the presentation of the book “Unit X,” written by Raj Shah, managing partner of Shield Capital and former director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit.
As many as 25 aerospace and defense startups from both countries showcased their cutting-edge technologies and innovations and presented them to investors, venture capitalists and officials.
