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The outgoing Biden administration is in the process of finalising a national security memorandum that will update America\'s export control policies under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a move that is likely to facilitate more cooperation between India and US companies in the space sector, the White House said Tuesday. The goal of updating export control policies under the MTCR is to be able to advance commercial space cooperation even further with close partners like India, Princi .. \"We are continuing to take steps to further knock down barriers to private sector cooperation, and importantly, we are in the process of finalising national security memorandum that will update our own export control policies under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR),\" Finer said. Finer, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Indian Ambassador to the US Vinay Kwatra visited Houston on Tuesday and met the astronauts of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) who are training at NASA\'s Johnson Space Center to execute a joint effort of the International Space Station next year. Created in 1987 by G-7 countries, MTCR is an informal political understanding among 35 member states that seeks to limit the proliferation of missiles and missile technology. India joined MTCR in 2016. In practical terms, this would mean that US-based companies would face lower barriers in partnering with Indian companies,\" Finer said. India and the US, he said, are not only making significant advancements in their national space programmes but are also increasingly working together to build a cooperative partnership in space, he said. \"Our task as governments is to create a platform for industries to innovate faster together and at scale,\" he said. This goal was at the heart of the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (ICET) that the Biden administration launched in January 2023. \"As part of our ICET initiative, we committed to expand commercial space collaboration,\" Finer said. Chirag Parikh, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary, National Space Council, said the US-India space cooperation has had a long history and is rooted in the civil space environment, particularly on earth science and space science and exploration. \"As we continue to see how India has grown its space sector over just the past several years, they\'re hitting a number of groundbreaking milestones. Notably, recently, they landed a probe on the Lunar South Pole region called Chandrayan-3, and where we\'ve also been with NASA, been able to partner with them to be able to provide some payload for those elements,\" he said.