By MARCUS WEISGERBER
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The Pentagon is looking to broaden its military relationship with India in the coming years across a multitude of areas including technology transfer and co-production of equipment.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is scheduled to speak about this and other defense-related issues in meetings with a number of Indian officials during a two-day visit to New Delhi. He is supposed to meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Defense Minister A. K. Antony and national security adviser Shivshankar Menon.
U.S. and Indian officials are also expected to discuss military equipment modernization and technology transfer, a senior defense official said.
“We are going to be basically trying to figure out now and over the coming years how we keep moving our bilateral defense trade relationship forward,” the official said.
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