[1] The first summit was supposed to be held on July 6, 2018, in Washington, D.C., but had been postponed by India's Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, citing "unavoidable reasons".

The summit resulted in both sides beginning negotiations for the Industrial Security Annex which would allow U.S. defense firms to sell military equipment to Indian partners.

The ministers and secretaries welcomed the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue that was held between India, the United States, Australia, and Japan in September.

[6] The meeting resulted in both countries signing the Industrial Security Annex which allowed one-hundred and fourteen fighter jets to be sold to India.

[7] The third summit was held on October 27 in New Delhi where both sides announced the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-spatial Cooperation and with the United States vowing to support India's "territorial sovereignty and liberty" which was a response to the May skirmishes between India and China's armed forces at the disputed region of their border known as the Line of Actual Control.

[9] In October, officials from both countries had discussed regional issues during the sixteenth US-India Defence Policy Group meeting that was said to lay the groundwork for the next 2+2 dialogue.

[10] On December 16, the Minister of External Affairs spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi, announced that a 2+2 was unlikely to be held in 2021 as details including a date had yet to be finalized.

[15] Three days later on the thirteenth, Jaishankar rebuked that India had concerns about human rights in the U.S. citing hate crimes against members of the Indian community in New York.

Both sides held the forum after Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison agreed to upgrade the relations to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership after a virtual summit in June 2020.

[25] Lavrov described the summit by stating, "I'm confident that the new mechanism is going to turn into an efficient dialogue platform to talk about a wide range of regional and international topics a little further deepening our traditional, mutual understanding.

An agreement was reached by both sides with India producing more than six hundred thousand Kalashnikov rifles and a military and technical cooperation pact was agreed upon lasting until 2031 which included a pledge to boost annual trade to thirty billion dollars by 2025.