Sec. 1292. Enhancing defense and security cooperation with India
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The Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State should jointly take such actions as may be necessary to— recognize India’s status as a major defense partner of the United States; designate an individual within the executive branch who has experience in defense acquisition and technology— to reinforce and ensure, through interagency policy coordination, the success of the Framework for the United States-India Defense Relationship; and to help resolve remaining issues impeding United States-India defense trade, security cooperation, and co-production and co-development opportunities; approve and facilitate the transfer of advanced technology, consistent with United States conventional arms transfer policy, to support combined military planning with India’s military for missions such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counter piracy, freedom of navigation, and maritime domain awareness missions, and to promote weapons systems interoperability; strengthen the effectiveness of the U.S.-India Defense Trade and Technology Initiative and the durability of the Department of Defense’s India Rapid Reaction Cell ; collaborate with the Government of India to develop mutually agreeable mechanisms to verify the security of defense articles, defense services, and related technology, such as appropriate cyber security and end use monitoring arrangements, consistent with United States export control laws and policy; promote policies that will encourage the efficient review and authorization of defense sales and exports to India; encourage greater government-to-government and commercial military transactions between the United States and India; support the development and alignment of India’s export control and procurement regimes with those of the United States and multilateral control regimes; and continue to enhance defense and security cooperation with India in order to advance United States interests in the South Asia and greater Indo-Asia-Pacific regions.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State shall jointly submit to the congressional defense committees and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on how the United States is supporting its defense relationship with India in relation to the actions described in paragraph (1). To enhance cooperation and encourage military-to-military engagement between the United States and India, the Secretary of Defense should take appropriate actions to ensure that exchanges between senior military officers and senior civilian defense officials of the United States Government and the Government of India— are at a level appropriate to enhance engagement between the militaries of the two countries for threat analysis, military doctrine, force planning, mutual security interests, logistical support, intelligence, tactics, techniques and procedures, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief; include exchanges of general and flag officers between the two countries; enhance cooperative military operations, including maritime security, counter-piracy, counter-terror cooperation, and domain awareness, in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region; accelerate the development of combined military planning for missions such as those identified in subsection (a)(1)(C) or in paragraph
(1)of this subsection, or other missions in the national security interests of both countries; and solicit and recognize actions and efforts by India that would allow the United States to treat India as a major defense partner. The Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State shall jointly, on an ongoing basis, conduct an assessment of the extent to which India possesses capabilities to support and carry out military operations of mutual interest to the United States and India, including an assessment of the defense export control regulations and policies that need appropriate modification, in recognition of India’s capabilities and its status as a major defense partner. The President shall ensure that the assessment described in paragraph
(1)is used, consistent with United States conventional arms transfer policy, to inform the review by the United States of requests to export defense articles, defense services, or related technology to India under the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq. ), and to inform any regulatory and policy adjustments that may be appropriate.
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