An American delegation led by Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B Myers will be in Delhi in the next two weeks.
The visit assumes significance in the light of India's recent rejection of a US proposal to send troops to Iraq.
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The visit, according to official sources, is aimed, apart from boosting defence cooperation, at advancing the annual Defence Policy Group meeting between the two countries to the first week of August.
"The US has proposed August 4 to 6 as dates for the DPG and indicated that the venue of the meeting be changed from New Delhi to Washington," officials said.
Many observers consider it as part of new moves by Washington to woo India to rethink its participation in the Iraq stabilisation force.
The DPG meeting, the highest forum of Indo-US military-to-military dialogue, was scheduled to be held towards the end of August with India's turn to host it as the last two meetings were held in the US.