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“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the en bloc package, which contains amendment No. 384 to create four critical technology security centers. These centers would be created through competitive grants issued by the Department of Homeland Security to universities or federally funded research and development centers, including national laboratories. Each center would have a different focus, with the first four covering network technology, network industrial control systems, open source software, and Federal critical software, respectively. Each center would rigorously test the security of a set of technologies developed with input from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, the compromise of which would represent the highest level of risk to our critical infrastructure. With respect to those specific technologies, centers would evaluate their overall security posture; develop new tools and capabilities for vulnerability discovery, management, and mitigation; and support the remediation of the vulnerabilities they find. This is an important recommendation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, and I thank my fellow Commissioner, Mr. Gallagher, for cosponsoring this amendment. I also thank Chairman Thompson for his support of the measure. I urge Members to support the en bloc package and the underlying bill.”