Melbourne, July 9 -- India and Australia on Thursday launched the India-Australia Partnership on Cyber, Critical Technologies and Supply Chains (PACTS), a new strategic framework to deepen cooperation in cyber security, critical technologies, digital resilience, defence research and resilient supply chains across the Indo-Pacific.

The new partnership succeeds and replaces the 2020 Framework Arrangement on Cyber and Cyber Enabled Critical Technology Cooperation, building on the two countries' Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and two decades of collaboration in research, operational coordination and policy engagement.

The declaration states, "Recognising that supply chains, critical technology and cyber security drive economic growth, ...