India and United States (US) held their Industrial Security Agreement (ISA) summit between September 27 to October 01, 2021 at New Delhi.

Key facts

• The summit was organised in order to develop a protocol to exchange classified information between the defence industries of both the countries.
• It was led by “Designated Security Authorities (DSAs)” viz., Anurag Bajpai from Indian side and David Paul Bagnati from US sides.
• It was held to create a roadmap to implement the ISA.
• DSAs also visited the Indian defence industry in preparation for the creation of roadmap.
• During the summit, they agreed to establish the Indo-US Industrial Security Joint Working Group.

The joint working group will meet periodically to align the policies and procedures that will allow the defence industries in collaborating on cutting edge defence technologies.

ISA is the part of India-U.S. General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA). It was signed at the second 2+2 dialogue in Washington in December 2019.