Australia-India pact to boost secure critical minerals supply chains

Australia and India have established the Australia-India Partnership on Cyber, Critical Technologies and Supply Chains (PACTS) to enhance cooperation in cyber security, critical technologies, and supply chains, replacing the 2020 Framework Arrangement on Cyber and Cyber Enabled Critical Technology Cooperation.

Australia, India, private sector, universities, research institutions, government agencies, and relevant peak bodies in the fields of cyber, critical technologies, and supply chains.

• Develop a bilateral mechanism for collaboration on trusted vendor frameworks.
• Promote India-Australia cooperation through the Quad Partnership for Cable Connectivity and Resilience.
• Collaborate on secure critical minerals supply chains through coordinated investment, regulatory alignment, and recycling.
• Leverage global efforts to advance international standards for trustworthy AI.
• Strengthen cooperation in UN mandated cyber related processes.
• Support new partnership exchanges with countries in the Indo-Pacific on India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) principles.
• Scale and diffuse affordable DPI solutions to the Indo-Pacific in areas including clean energy, resilient infrastructure, connectivity, health, and education.
• Build institutional connections between Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group and India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation.

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