• On the occasion of the one year anniversary of the landmark UK-India Technology Security Initiative (TSI), both sides reaffirmed their shared commitment to harness frontier technologies to drive economic growth and strengthen national security.

• Both parties underscored the transformative potential of the TSI to deliver cutting-edge innovations and generate investment across the entire technology value chain.

UK-India Technology Security Initiative

• Recognising the increasing role of technology in national security and economic development, the Prime Ministers of India and the United Kingdom launched ‘Technology Security Initiative’ (TSI) in July 2024 to elevate the partnership between the two countries to the next level. 

• The TSI builds upon the ambitious bilateral cooperation agenda set out in the India-UK Roadmap 2030, and will bring into sharper focus collaboration in critical and emerging technologies (CET) across priority sectors. 

• It will reinforce existing collaborative efforts in various technologies, broaden the mandates of existing mechanisms, and establish new mechanisms for cooperation.

• The initiative sets out a new approach for how the UK and India work together on the defining technologies of this decade. 

These include:

i) Telecoms

ii) Critical minerals

iii) Artificial Intelligence (AI)

iv) Quantum

v) Health/biotechnology

vi) Advanced materials

vii) Semiconductors.   

• The Initiative builds on a series of partnerships between Indian and British governments, industry and academia. 

• The TSI is coordinated by the National Security Advisers (NSAs) of both countries through existing and new dialogues. The NSAs will set the priority areas and identify interdependencies for cooperation on critical and emerging tech that will, in turn, help build meaningful technology value chain partnerships between our two countries. 

• The progress made on the initiative will be reviewed on a half yearly basis at Deputy NSA level. 

• Both countries view TSI as a platform and a strong signal of intent to build and grow sustainable and tangible partnerships across priority tech sectors.

Over the past year, both sides have:

• Launched a flagship £7 million joint research programme on Future Telecoms in 2024 to support joint Open RAN and 5G/6G testbed development.

• Formalised collaboration between key telecoms lab facilities — India’s Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) and the UK’s Smart RAN Open Network Interoperability Centre (SONIC) for bilateral collaboration in telecom innovation, testing and emerging technology.

• Accelerated development in responsible and trustworthy AI, including through the first UK-India Conference on AI opportunities, held in Bengaluru in February 2025.

• Completed the successful first phase of the world’s first UK-India Critical Minerals Supply Chain Observatory. Phase Two, supported by £1.8 million of new funding, will deliver the world’s largest digital data infrastructure on the critical minerals value chain and establish a new satellite campus at the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad.

• Strengthened our partnership in FEMTECH – Women-Orientated Health Tech by collaboration between National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT).

• Initiated several new partnerships between the private sector from both sides in the fields of telecoms, critical minerals, advanced materials and AI.

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