India, April 1 -- The fourth edition of the bilateral Tri-Service India-US Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise will begin on Tuesday, officials said.

The Fourth edition of Exercise Tiger Triumph is scheduled on the Eastern Seaboard from April 1 to April 13.

The exercise is aimed at developing interoperability for conducting HADR operations and for the formulation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to establish a Combined Coordination Center (CCC) that would enable rapid and smooth coordination between Indian and US Joint Task Forces (JTF) during exercises and crisis / contingencies.

The US side would be represented by US Navy Ships Comstock and Ralph Johnson with troops of the US Marine Division embarked. ...