India and the US collaborating on digital India. The most-significant aspect would be the Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) '" aimed at enhancing the ones existing under the Defence Policy Group, which lay out the path for future defence cooperation.

The US is pushing for what it calls "transformative defence technologies" for co-development and co-production with India under DTTI, which could become the hallmark of the Modi government's 'Make-in-India' initiative.

The US has offered India 17 hi-tech items of military hardware for co-production and co-development under DTTI. Of the 17, India is understood to be interested in five, including unarmed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aircraft landing system for aircraft carriers.

Hectic parleys were being held between the two countries on the defence front.


Pic: Modi and Obama at the Hyderabad House garden before the presser. When asked about what they spoke about, Modi said it would remain undisclosed.