Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET)
Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET)
Why in News?
- Recently, India’s National Security Advisor hold talks with the US counterpart on the first dialogue on Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) in the US.
Highlights
- The iCET initiative was launched by India and the US in May 2022, and is being run by the National Security Councils of both countries.
- Under iCET, the both countries have identified six areas of cooperation which would include co-development and co-production, that would gradually be expanded to QUAD, then to NATO, followed by Europe and the rest of the world.
- Under iCET, India is ready to share its core technologies with the US and expects Washington to do the same.
- Completing the work on the long-awaited NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) earth observation satellite is an excellent example of how the US-India partnership in space can benefit the world
- iCET would forge closer linkages between government, academia and industry of the two countries.
- The objective is to provide cutting edge technologies to the rest of the world which are affordable.
- The launch of the ambitious iCET dialogue is seen as “an alignment of strategic, commercial and scientific approaches” in the field of technology.