Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is on a three-day bilateral visit to U.S.A. from December 3-6, 2018, hosted by Secretary of Defense James Mattis, to discuss the acquisition of weaponized Predator drones and anti-missile shield with top officials at the Pentagon. She will also visit Hawaii to honour the renaming of the Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command. The minister will go to the Mountain View headquarters of Pentagon’s defence innovation unit (DIUx), which recently tied up with its Indian counterpart. Sitharaman will also re-pitch for a Presidential waiver on CAATSA for the Indian acquisition of S-400 missile system from Russia.