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The India-United States partnership is entering a new phase of accelerated cooperation, with the US State Department describing India as one of its most important strategic partners.Officials emphasised that collaboration is expanding rapidly across trade, technology, energy and defence.Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Bethany Poulos Morrison stated that the Trump administration is working swiftly to strengthen ties, calling the relationship a key partnership for the future.Speaking at the fourth annual Capitol Hill advocacy event organised by the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies, she declared, “The US-India relationship is the future,” while outlining areas…

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WASHINGTON — An internal Pentagon review published Wednesday warns that decades of underfunding has led to alarming deterioration in facilities doing military research. “RDTE [Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation] infrastructure is deteriorating and weakening its ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability … forcing RDT&E organizations to operate in facilities that pose documented safety risks and technical limitations,” reads the report, entitled “Supporting the Warfighter,” the result of the review led by Assistant Secretary for Science & Technology Joseph Jewell. “Authorized major MILCON [Military Construction] projects for modernization of critical joint-mission RDT&E infrastructure continually slip due to the Services’…

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has supplied 5,700 tons of specialised DMR 249A grade steel for three newly commissioned Indian Navy warships — INS Dunagiri, INS Agray, and INS Sanshodhak — marking a major milestone in India’s defence indigenisation and maritime self-reliance.The steel was produced at Bokaro, Bhilai, and Rourkela plants, reinforcing India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India initiatives.SAIL, a Maharatna Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Steel, has once again demonstrated its pivotal role in strengthening India’s naval capabilities.The company supplied the entire requirement of 5,700 tons of defence-grade steel for three advanced naval platforms…

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing for a fifth public shipyard to support a growing fleet, the head of the Office of Management and Budget said Wednesday. The Trump administration’s budget request includes $65.8 billion for shipbuilding alone for fiscal 2027, and calls for expanding the Navy’s inventory to 450 ships — including battle force ships, auxiliary ships, and unmanned vessels — by 2031. The request also includes $1.85 billion in reconciliation funding to study whether foreign shipyards could be used to build US warships — with designs on possibly procuring the first vessel from South Korea or Japan,…

For two decades, Southeast Asian governments took special care to diversify their weapons catalogs. U.S. fighters were balanced against Russian submarines, French frigates against South Korean trainers, Israeli radars against Chinese patrol boats. By diversifying defense procurement across major powers, ASEAN states could modernize without owing allegiance to anyone, preserving the strategic autonomy that has long defined the bloc’s posture toward great power rivalry.  Russia was indispensable to this arrangement. Moscow offered capable aircraft, submarines, and air defense systems at prices Western suppliers could not match, accepted unconventional payment arrangements, including barter in palm oil and coffee, and asked few…

India and the United States have advanced their trade negotiations after US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s two‑day meeting with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi on 23–24 June.Experts at the Asia Society Policy Institute caution, however, that despite progress, key differences remain unresolved and a final agreement is not yet within reach.Wendy Cutler, Senior Vice President at ASPI, observed that concluding a trade deal with India is proving elusive. She explained that each side has its own priorities and red lines which continue to block a successful conclusion. She also noted that developments over the past year have created…

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ARLINGTON, Va.—From rockets to tanks, the Army wants to expand its current Amazon-esque marketplace where soldiers, allies and partners now buy drones and counter-UAS tech. “The grand strategy of conflict going forward is compatibility,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters Tuesday during the Army’s industry day for low-cost interceptors. “The way that small nations like Finland are going to be able to partner with large nations like the United States, and we are going to be able to parachute into a theater where a lot of our stuff doesn’t exist, is that our allies have compatible equipment to us.”To do that,…