At a joint news conference with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to India-US relations as a “MEGA partnership for prosperity“.

He emphasized the shared aims of both countries, saying Trump is working for MAGA – Make America Great Again, while India is focused on MIGA – Make India Great Again, and that they have a MEGA cooperation.

Taking to X, PM Modi said, “President Trump often talks about MAGA. In India, we are working towards a Viksit Bharat, which in the American context translates into MIGA. And together, the India-USA have a MEGA partnership for prosperity.”

During their recent meeting, Prime Minister Modi and President Trump announced a new project, the “US-India COMPACT (Catalyzing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce, and Technology) for the 21st Century,” to drive revolutionary change across critical pillars of cooperation.

The leaders reiterated their strong commitment to a dynamic defense collaboration across several domains. To strengthen defense relations even further, the leaders announced plans to establish a new ten-year Framework for the ‘US-India Major Defense Partnership’ in the Twenty-First Century this year.

India has successfully integrated US-origin defense products into its inventory, including C-130J Super Hercules, C-17 Globemaster III, P-8I Poseidon aircraft, CH-47F Chinooks, MH-60R Seahawks, and AH-64E Apaches, as well as Harpoon anti-ship missiles, M777 howitzers, and MQ-9Bs. The presidents agreed that the United States would increase defense sales and co-production with India to improve interoperability and defense industrial collaboration.

The leaders agreed to pioneer new ways to support and sustain the US and Indian militaries’ overseas deployments in the Indo-Pacific, including improved logistics and intelligence sharing, as well as arrangements to improve force mobility for joint humanitarian and disaster relief operations, as well as other exchanges and security cooperation engagements.

The leaders pledged to increase trade and investment to benefit their citizens, boost their economies, stimulate innovation, and build more resilient supply chains. They pledged to improving the US-India trade relationship in order to encourage growth that is equitable, strengthens national security, and creates job opportunities. To do this, they set an ambitious goal for bilateral commerce called “Mission 500,” which aims to more than double total bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030.

The leaders emphasized the importance of US-India collaboration in ensuring energy affordability, reliability, availability, and market stability. Recognizing the important role that the United States and India play as leading producers and consumers in shaping the global energy environment, the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the US-India Energy Security Partnership, including in oil, gas, and civil nuclear energy.

The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to expanding energy commerce as part of measures to secure energy security and establish the United States as a significant supplier of crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas to India.

The leaders announced the launch of the US-India TRUST (“Transforming the Relationship Utilizing Strategic Technology”) initiative, which will catalyze government-to-government, academic, and private sector collaboration to promote the application of critical and emerging technologies in areas like defense, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum, biotechnology, energy, and space, while encouraging the use of verified technology vendors and ensuring sensitive technology.

Two countries will collaborate to enable industry partnerships and investments in next-generation data centers, cooperation on AI development and access to compute and processors, innovations in AI models, and the development of AI applications to solve societal challenges, all while addressing the protections and controls required to protect these technologies and reduce regulatory barriers.

The leaders announced the launch of INDUS Innovation, a new innovation bridge modeled after the successful INDUS-X platform that will advance US-India industry and academic partnerships while also encouraging investments in space, energy, and other emerging technologies to maintain US and India’s innovation leadership and meet the needs of the twenty-first century. The leaders also reaffirmed their support for the INDUS-X program, which allows collaboration between US and Indian defense industries, investors, and universities to develop essential capabilities for our forces, and welcomed the next summit in 2025.

The leaders hailed 2025 as a watershed moment in US-India civil space cooperation, with plans for a NASA-ISRO effort via AXIOM to send the first Indian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) and the early launch of the joint “NISAR” mission, the first of its kind to systematically map changes to the Earth’s surface using dual radars.

The presidents agreed that their governments should increase efforts to eliminate export regulations, improve high-technology commerce, and lower obstacles to technology transfer between our two countries while also addressing technology security.

The presidents agreed to increase coordination, strengthen diplomatic contacts, and expand tangible partnership with Middle Eastern allies. The leaders want to convene partners from the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor and the I2U2 Group within the next six months to launch new projects for 2025.

The United States values India’s position as a development, humanitarian assistance, and net security supplier in the Indian Ocean Region. In this regard, the leaders pledged to strengthen bilateral discussion and collaboration across the broad Indian Ocean region, establishing the Indian Ocean Strategic Venture, a new bilateral, whole-of-government forum to promote coordinated investments in economic connectivity and commerce.

The leaders also agreed to strengthen military cooperation in multinational contexts to promote global peace and security. The leaders praised India’s commitment to take a future leadership position in the Combined Maritime Forces naval task force, which will help protect water channels in the Arabian water.

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the need of strengthening people-to-people ties between the two countries. They noted that more than 3,00,000 strong Indian student communities contribute more than $8 billion to the US economy each year, creating a number of direct and indirect job opportunities.

They recognized that the exchange of students, researchers, and employees had benefited both countries.Both executives underlined the importance of establishing innovative, mutually beneficial, and safe mobility frameworks as the globe evolves into a global workplace.

US President Trump and Prime Minister Modi agreed to maintain strong ties between our governments, companies, and academic institutions. They aspire to establish a long-term cooperation between India and the United States that matches both countries’ objectives for a bright and prosperous future, contributes to global good, and supports a free and open Indo-Pacific region.