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The U.S. Trade and Development Agency held its fourth U.S.-India Aviation Summit in October
2013 in Washington, DC.
It’s goal: to promote U.S. Technical Solutions to Support the rapid growth of India’s Aviation
Sector
“We have the U.S. – India Aviation Summit every two years for a couple reasons. We use
it to re-cap all the project work that we’ve done together the past two years. And really
it’s to build further, to do the programming, the planning, and thinking forward of the
cooperation areas that are going to make the most sense. So each one builds on the previous
one and the cooperation work we have ongoing.”
The summit was held in cooperation with the U.S. –India Aviation Cooperation Program
(or ACP) and the Government of India.
It featured participation by high-level aviation officials from the U.S. and India’s public
and private sectors.
“By using this forum to discuss ways to turn these challenges into opportunities,
we will strengthen cooperation between India’s aviation leaders and U.S. providers of technology
and services. And we will continue to ensure that the rapid growth in Aviation benefits
both of our countries.”
Senior representatives from agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration and Department
of Transportation were also present to not only provide key insights, but to also reaffirm
U.S. support for the further development of India’s aviation sector.
“Through summits like this we will continue to work with our partners like India to make
sure that people are safe every time they board a plane no matter where they are in
the world.”
The summit covered many elements including air traffic control capacity, aviation security
and general aviation in India.
But perhaps the most important part of the summit was to strengthen partnerships between
the U.S. and India’s public and private sectors that were originally forged by USTDA’s
U.S. –India Aviation Cooperation Program.
“The Aviation Cooperation Program, or what we appropriately call it as ACP started by
USTDA has done marvelous work. It has brought persons at various levels and to these interactions,
the India civil aviation service has benefitted a lot.”
“The summit has been very useful for the ACP and its member companies. We are already
seeing the Indian government wanting to engage with us in newer areas that were not identified
earlier. We also found companies express interest in joining the ACP. We think the summit has
helped the ACP in getting new areas for working cooperatively on, and also getting new members
to stand on the body”
Following the summit, U.S. companies in attendance had the opportunity to meet with key India
project stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
Through these meetings, participants were able to learn more about upcoming development
projects and provide an overview of the services they offer.
“Aviation in regard to India is a very important subject. My experience of USTDA this time
in Washington has been superb. The content of the presentations, the interest and depth
of the insight we have received, as well as all the policy makers, specifically the secretary
of transportation, the chief of FAA, the TSA and not to mention the chief of USTDA, Ms.
Zak, have all gone out of their way to make us feel at home and comfortable.”
The 2013 U.S.-India Aviation Summit built on the results of previous conferences, with
the goal of assisting the Government of India in identifying advanced U.S. technology that
will support the development of India’s aviation infrastructure.