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Thailand, USA Boost Defence Ties with Landmark Information Exchange Agreement

Our Bureau - : Aug 29, 2022 - : 1:32 am

In a major boost to the defence cooperation between Thailand and the USA, both nations recently inked an information exchange agreement during a virtual ceremony. The agreement, titled “Remote Sensing for Base Perimeter Defence,” is the first International Armaments Cooperation collaboration between the U.S. Department of Defence and Thai Ministry of Defence.

Lt. Gen. Somkiat Sampan, Defence Science and Technology Department director-general from the Thai Ministry of Defence and Kelli L. Seybolt, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force, International Affairs, were signatories to the agreement, which will result in deeper collaboration on defence technologies between both nations. Lt. Gen. Sampan said: “Our relationship and our cooperation in the past … made this (information exchange agreement) possible.”

“This important step forward is just the latest manifestation of our deep and enduring relationship,” Seybolt said. “United by our shared commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, Thailand is our oldest friend and ally in Asia, and our close cooperation reflects a friendship of nearly two centuries.” The agreement will allow both the USA and Thailand to advance the theory and testing needed for systems that can sense, detect, and classify installation threats. Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Prototypes from both nations will be tested, and feedback shared. There are now inexpensive, field-deployable technologies that have the potential to defend installations using automated remote sensing.

Thailand first proposed the topic for the agreement and it was found that it overlapped with current research activities and interests of the U.S. Air Force. Exploratory discussions were first held at the Royal Thai Air Force Academy with representation from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Secretary of the Air Force International Affairs, and the Joint United States Military Advisory Group Thailand in November 2019.

“It is a thrill to expand the scope of our security cooperation with Thailand,” Seybolt concluded. “And it is our sincere hope that this is only the start of a robust series of cooperative activities in next-generation defense technologies.”

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