Overview

• India’s ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra met Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby at the Pentagon earlier this week to review the bilateral defense agenda.
• Kwatra said they charted an actionable path on several initiatives in the India–U.S. pipeline, while Colby said the Pentagon looks forward to continuing to elevate cooperation.
• Neither side released program specifics or timelines in their public readouts of the discussion.
• The engagement followed the Yudh Abhyas 2025 exercise in Alaska, which concluded this week after two weeks of joint training by the Indian and U.S. armies.
• Kwatra also highlighted ISRO–NASA collaboration and India’s 2028–2035 crewed lunar and space‑station plans, and separately met a House China panel chair who called India an essential partner and discussed shifting critical manufacturing from China to India.