The bipartisan bill to address the debt limit could leave a list of low-priority defense projects worth approximately $16 billion unfunded, Reuters reported Friday.

The “unfunded priorities” of service branches include Abrams tanks, a ship for the U.S. Marine Corps and an aircraft.

According to the report, the debt agreement capped spending on national security programs at $886 billion in fiscal year 2024 and would push the Department of Defense and other agencies to look for ways on how to fund unfunded priorities that would normally be integrated into defense appropriations and policy bills as last-minute additions.

CNN reported that the bipartisan measure to suspend the debt ceiling through January 2025 was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Saturday, preventing a default on U.S. obligations.

“I just signed into law a bipartisan budget agreement that prevents a first-ever default while reducing the deficit, safeguarding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and fulfilling our scared obligation to our veterans,” the president said in a tweet.

The Senate voted 63-36 on Thursday to pass and send the legislation to Biden’s desk for his signature.

The upper chamber’s move came a day after the House cleared the measure, which would impose a 3 percent limit on increases for military spending in fiscal year 2024, increase the age of individuals who must work to get food assistance and accelerate energy and infrastructure projects.

The Government Accountability Office noted an improvement in the overall cost performance of 16 projects in NASA’s pipeline, with cost overruns declining from $12 billion in 2022 to $7.6 billion in 2023.

In its fifteenth annual assessment of major NASA projects, the government watchdog attributed last year’s cost growth to launches of the James Webb Space Telescope and other missions, which require significant spending.

GAO’s study covered Artemis major projects in the formulation and implementation phase, as well as non-Artemis missions including the Dragonfly rotocraft exploration of Saturn’s moon, and the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing I satellite refueling program.

While the Webb Space Telescope incurred $4.5 billion in cost overruns in 2022, expenditures have not grown this year following its launch. The Space Launch System and Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle had consistent overruns in 2022 and 2023, valued at $2.7 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively.

Twelve of the 16 projects have experienced delays in schedule, which is contributing to cumulative cost performance.

GAO has given multiple recommendations to address gaps in NASA’s management of major projects. NASA has not followed 16 of the recommendations, but it has made efforts to improve performance, such as earlier acquisition strategy planning and discussion.

BAE Systems has introduced a new technology partnership initiative to cultivate relationships between its intelligence and security business unit and other organizations.

The Mission Advantage project is intended to drive collaboration between BAE Systems and program members to accelerate the delivery of advanced technologies and increase mission readiness for customers, the McLean, Virginia-based contractor announced on Wednesday.

Daniel Perkins, director of strategy and technology partnerships for BAE Systems’ intelligence and security arm, said that Mission Advantage will help the company better address complicated national security challenges and swiftly respond to changing client demands.

“Together with our partners, we’re unlocking and creating synergies that provide our customers a significant technological edge in support of national security,” he said.

Under the initiative, participating organizations will work alongside BAE Systems to assist customers with digital modernization through integration and advanced mission engineering or by providing dual-use commercial technologies useful to national security missions.

The project offers its participants the chance to grow their businesses through collaboration, mentorships, scalability and expanded access to customer opportunities. It will also allow BAE Systems to widen its portfolio of radar, cybersecurity, digital engineering and modeling and simulation capabilities.

Mission Advantage represents a continuation of BAE Systems’ recent partnership efforts. In December 2022, the organization teamed with Elbit Systems, Curtiss-Wright and QinetiQ to develop the U.S. Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle.

The previous month, BAE Systems formed a partnership with Purisolve, a small business, to create Promoveo Solutions. The new information technology-focused organization resulted from a U.S. Small Business Administration-approved mentoring agreement between the two parent companies.