India and US inks Project Agreement for Air-Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- The Ministry of Defence, Government of India and US Department of Defence have signed a Project Agreement (PA) for Air-Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (ALUAV), under the Joint Working Group Air Systems in the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI). The PA was signed on July 30, 2021.
- The PA for ALUAV is part of the Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E) Memorandum of Agreement, which was first signed between Ministry of Defence and US Department of Defence, in January 2006 and renewed in January 2015.
- The RDT&E aims at deepening defence technology collaboration between the two nations through co-development of defence equipment.
- Under the collaboration, the two countries will work towards design, development, demonstration, testing and evaluation of systems to co-develop an ALUAV Prototype.
- The DTTI aims to bring sustained leadership focus to promote collaborative technology exchange and create opportunities for co-production and co-development of future technologies for Indian and US military forces.
Source: The Times of India
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