WASHINGTON (PTI): Apart from consolidating its defence trade with India, the US is now moving towards technology sharing and co-production, a top Pentagon official has said.
"We're moving well beyond purely defence trade with India, towards technology sharing and coproduction," Deputy Secretary of Defence, Ashton Carter, told a Washington think-tank on Wednesday.
Early this year, Carter was entrusted by Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, to remove bureaucratic hurdles in defence trade with India.
"We're deepening our security cooperation, technology sharing and defence trade with India, another state so important to our rebalance and, we believe, to the broader security and prosperity of the 21st century," Carter said.
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