New Delhi, July 27 -- The Indian Air Force, Army and Navy will gain greater access to sophisticated global defence technology under an emergency procurement package cumulatively worth about $4.5 billion, three officials with direct knowledge of the matter told Mint.

The project, approved shortly after Operation Sindoor, is designed to fill gaps in India's national defence technologies, giving the three defence arms access to technologies from the US and other trusted nations as early as next year.

The emergency procurement programme is largely focused on uninterrupted space surveillance technologies, data analytics, and combat drones, the officials said, requesting anonymity owing to the sensitive nature of the deals.

"Roughly, each em...