India and US will review the entire spectrum of their strategic ties during two-day talks here starting Monday between National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and his counterpart Jake Sullivan. They will also hold meeting on initiative of Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET), it was learnt here on Sunday. It will be the first meeting between the two NSAs after  Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office for the third time. Incidentally, Modi had a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden earlier this week on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy.

The main meeting of iCET will be held on Monday with the focus being a review of all the projects considered at the Washington meeting on January 31, 2023 including transfer of technology of GE-414 jet engines for Tejas Mark II fighters, sources said.

A US team is already in India to negotiate the sale of 31 MQ 9B armed Predator drones to India, just as a French team is in India to negotiate the 26 Rafale-Maritime fighter deal for INS Vikrant. NSA Ajit Doval is slated to be in Paris on June 20-21 for a meeting with his counterpart Emmanuel Bonne and military counterpart to deepen military ties.

During the iCET meeting, Doval and Sullivan are likely to discuss the draft of a new bilateral Defence Industrial Cooperation Roadmap to accelerate technological cooperation between the two countries for the joint development and production of jet engines, loitering ammunition and other systems.

The other issue under review is building of a resilient semiconductor supply chain in India through joint ventures. Other issues under discussion will be space cooperation, quantum computing and next generation telecommunications.