New Delhi, March 13 -- Organised by Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) under the Department of Defence Production of India's Ministry of Defence, and the Department of Defence (DoD), United States, in conjunction with the U.S.-India Business Council and Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM), the much anticipated INDUS-X Summit, held on February 20-21, 2024 in New Delhi, turned out to be a key event converging strategic technology partnerships and defence industrial cooperation between India and the USA.

It was during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's June 2023 state visit to the US that the India-US Defence Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) was launched with the aim of expanding bilateral ties in defence innovation. The two-d...