These include:

• Security of Supplies Arrangement (SoSA): Allows both U.S. and its partners to request priority support for defence-related goods and services to maintain supply chain resilience during critical times.
  • SoSA is not legally binding and not sanction-proofed. India is 18th SoSA partner of US.
• Memorandum of Agreement regarding Assignment of Liaison Officers: It will increase sharing of information and will entail posting of Indian armed forces officers in key strategic US Commands.

Other initiatives to boost India-US Defence and Security Cooperation

• US designated India as a Major Defence Partner (2016), and signed foundational agreements i.e.
  • Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), 2016 to use each other’s military base.
  • Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA), 2018 for interoperability between two militaries and sale of high-end technology to India.
  • Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA), 2020 to share high-end military technology, logistics and geospatial maps 
• Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET, 2023): Framework for technology cooperation, it covers commercial as well as defence technologies.
• India-US Defence Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X, 2023): Coordinate efforts in defence innovation in technology, systems and products.