Dr. G. Balachandran, an expert on security studies, was commissioned by UPIASI to carry out a project on Indo-US Relations and Controls on the Export of Dual-Purpose Technologies to India, funded by a grant to UPIASI from the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He visited Washington, DC, to do research in January 2005. A draft paper on policy options on the export of dual-purpose technologies to India from the US was submitted to the MEA in May 2005.