1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Critical Technology Security Centers Act of 2023 . 2. Critical technology security centers (a) Critical technology security centers Title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 324. Critical Technology Security Centers (a) Establishment Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, and in coordination with the Director, shall award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to covered entities for the establishment of not fewer than two cybersecurity-focused Critical Technology Security Centers (in this section referred to as Centers ) to evaluate and test the security of critical technology. (b) Evaluation and testing In carrying out the evaluation and testing of the security of critical technology pursuant to subsection (a), the Centers shall address the following technologies: (1) The security of information and communications technology that underpins national critical functions related to communications. (2) The security of networked industrial equipment, such as connected programmable data logic controllers and supervisory control and data acquisition servers. (3) The security of open source software that underpins national critical functions. (4) The security of critical software used by the Federal Government. (c) Addition or termination of Centers (1) In general The Under Secretary for Science and Technology may, in coordination with the Director, award or terminate grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to covered entities for the establishment of additional or termination of existing Centers to evaluate and test the security of critical technologies. (2) Limitation The authority provided under paragraph (1) may be exercised except if such exercise would result in the operation at any time of fewer than two Centers. (d) Selection of critical technologies (1) In