| Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) At the 2022 Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo, Quad Leaders announced the IPMDA to enhance existing maritime domain awareness capabilities. IPMDA is a technology and training initiative. It involves commercial satellite radio frequency data collection to provide partners near real-time information on activities occurring in their maritime zones. To rapidly detect and respond to challenges involving illicit maritime activities such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, climate events, and humanitarian crises. Regional information centres to establish a common operating picture of the Indo-Pacific region. |
- Indian and U.S. officials held discussions in New Delhi during a “2+2 intersessional dialogue” ahead of the Prime Minister’s upcoming visit to the U.S. and the Quad Summit in Wilmington.
- The Quad Summit will include leaders from the U.S., India, Japan, and Australia, focusing on Indo-Pacific issues.
- Leaders are expected to emphasize cooperation on semiconductors and critical technologies, aiming to build a more secure regional environment.
- Enhancing Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) mechanisms and discussing possible joint maritime operations in the future were also on the agenda.
- India reiterated that the Quad is not a security framework like other U.S.-led regional initiatives such as AUKUS, which involves the U.K. and Australia, or alliances with South Korea, the Philippines, and New Zealand.
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