cooperation in underwater domain awareness (UDA) with new program - Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance (ASIA)
India, U.S. up dealings in underwater domain awareness
underwater domain awareness (UDA)
India and the U.S. are scaling up
- cooperation in underwater domain awareness (UDA)
- with new program - Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance (ASIA), announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Washington.
ASIA The alliance
aimed at scaling up
- industry partnerships
- and production in the Indo-Pacific region
- has identified a range of UDA technologies for co-production in India, official sources said.
bilateral level and among the Quad group
Maritime domain awareness and increasingly, underwater domain awareness have become key focus areas both at a bilateral level and among the Quad group of India, Australia, Japan, and the U.S., especially given the rapid expansion of the Chinese Navy and its increasing presence in the Indian Ocean region.
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The new technologies
include the
- Sea Picket autonomous surveillance system with sonar acoustic array produced by ThayerMahan;
- Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle systems;
- low-frequency active-towed sonar;
- multistatic active (MSA) sonobuoys;
- large diameter autonomous undersea vehicles produced by Anduril;
- and Triton autonomous underwater and surface vehicle produced by Ocean Aero.
New opportunities for India
U.S. announcing a review of its policy on releasing fifth-generation fighters and undersea systems to India.
Discussions are on between the U.S. companies and Indian partners regarding the identified technologies, sources said.
For the Wave Glider unmanned surface vehicle systems
negotiations are on between Boeing’s Liquid Robotics and Sagar Defence Engineering for the co-production of 60 platforms in India.
low-frequency active-towed sonar
discussions are on with L3 Harris for co-development with Bharat Electronics Ltd.
For the MSA sonobuoys
a high-end technology which can be used to track submarines in the deep seas and oceans, India and the U.S. had announced a “first-of-its-kind partnership on co-production” in January.
As part of this, Ultra Maritime’s sonobuoys will be co-produced in India in partnership with the defence public sector undertaking Bharat Dynamics Ltd.
Breaking new ground
military cooperation across all domains
— air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace — through enhanced training, exercises, and operations, incorporating the latest technologies.
overseas deployments of the U.S. and Indian militaries in the Indo-Pacific, including
- enhanced logistics
- and intelligence sharing,
- as well as arrangements to improve force mobility for joint humanitarian and disaster relief operations
- other exchanges
- and security cooperation engagements.
At the Quad level, the statement
said that as India looks to host the group’s summit later this year,
the leaders will activate new Quad initiatives on “shared airlift capacity”
to support the civilian response to natural disasters, and “maritime patrols” to improve interoperability.
other military platforms that India has procured from the U.S.
These platforms include
- 12 P-8Is which are already in service;
- 24 MH-60R multi-role helicopters being inducted;
- 15 MQ-9B Sea Guardian high-altitude long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that were contracted as part of a deal for 31 MQ-9Bs last October, with deliveries to begin from January 2029;
- and six more P-8Is that the leaders signed off on during the discussions earlier this week.
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