"The United States is expanding cooperation with India to address global challenges. I had a good meeting with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval today to discuss deepening our strategic partnership.," Blinken said in a tweet.
The discussions between Doval and Hicks included strengthening policy and operational coordination in the Indo-Pacific region and increasing defence industrial cooperation between two nations.
Taking to his Twitter handle, Sullivan said that India and US together will deliver for people, and economies and continue to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Taking to Twitter, Indian Embassy in the US said, "Transforming vision into action! NSAs Ajit Doval & Jake Sullivan formally launched U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies(iCET). Announced by @narendramodi & @POTUS,iCET reflects conv.of strategic, commercial
The United States and India concluded their US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) meeting and decided to launch a new "Innovation Bridge", which will connect both countries' defence startups, according to the statement released by the White House.
Talking about the US-India initiative on critical and emerging technologies (ICET), the official said that it is the result of President Biden and Prime Minister Modi's direction to their respective national security advisors to kind of spearhead this strategic initiative and expand the part
Doval and Ambassador of India to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu highlighted India's remarkable capacity for technology development and absorption and emphasized India's use of technology not only as an enabler of economic growth but as an instrument of social inclusion.
Addressing industry executives, NSA Sullivan said that "iCET is about much more than technology cooperation, it's a platform to accelerate our strategic convergence and policy alignment."
India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held the first iCET (Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies) with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval arrived in Washington on Monday morning to attend the first formal talks on the Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET)