When the going to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin meets his counterpart Rajnath Singh on Saturday, India will seek cooperation from the US in Multi Domain Operation (MD), and Intelligence Sharing.
On Friday late afternoon the US Defense Secretary arrived in India on Friday on a two day take a look at which is aimed at enhancing the bilateral defense and safety ties amongst the two nations. He is accompanied by a higher level official delegation. This is the initial take a look at of one of the leading officers from the Biden administration and assumes value as it follows the not too long ago concluded Quad Leaders Summit which was referred to as by the US President Joe Biden
“Since India is trying to transform from man-power intensive to technology-intensive force, talks with the US is going to be in Multi-Doman Operations (MDO). And also Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Big Data as well as block chain. The two are also going to talk about Intelligence sharing, as well as operationalizing agreements inked between the two countries,” a senior officer confirmed to TheSpuzz Online, late Friday evening.
What precisely is MDO?
Though India has not too long ago began focusing on jointness amongst all the 3 services — this implies that the all the services participate collectively, and want not necessarily be in an integrated manner.
MDO is a step beyond joint. Roughly it implies that capabilities are employed by way of several domains. This is really crucial in network centric warfare. And is currently operational amongst the NATO members as nicely as nations like Australia has this in operation. Once this is operational then it is capable to provide C4 [command, control, communication and computer] services which will assistance the forces to deploy the troops and assets in a really quick time.
The US currently has MDO in location. And India will be in search of its experience in an work to adopt the very same technique for its personal forces. This implies that correct from the soldier on the ground will be capable to improve his person overall performance which will be by way of AI assistance systems, machine understanding, and biotechnical sensors.
Operationalizing the Indo-US Agreements
India and the US will also speak about the operationalization of the agreements inked by each sides. As has been reported by TheSpuzz Online the two nations have concluded: The foundational agreement for mutual logistics assistance — The Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA). The COMCASA agreement facilitates encrypted communications amongst the two armed forces. Both nations have also concluded the Industrial Security Annex or ISA, which enables the US to share sensitive facts with private Indian entities on military hardware and helped paving the way for joint production of military gear. Last year, the two nations inked the extended pending Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA).
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Both the US Navy and the Indian Navy have signed a loan agreement and installed two Pacific fleet- offered CENTRIXS systems at the Indian Navy headquarters and the two sides are in discussions for installing many more at other places. New Delhi, has according to reports also developed a prevalent account of USD 5 million, this has been set up to spend for services or facts sought from the US below the COMCASA.
And to analyze huge volumes of information that are received as aspect of Maritime Domain Awareness, a tactical information hyperlink, Sealink Advanced Analysis (S2A), is in the course of action of getting set up. For the Big Data Analytics, the S2A is getting co-created by India and the US.
Visiting US Defense Secretary calls on NSA
He reached New Delhi immediately after concluding his visits to Japan and South Korea. And later in the evening referred to as on National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Several difficulties such as the ongoing standoff amongst India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the predicament in Myanmar as nicely as other difficulties of mutual interests had been discussed.