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P<\/span>ITTSBURGH \u2014 Western Pennsylvania\u2019s leadership in AI, robotics, and cyber intelligence companies that work with the Department of War was reinforced recently. Qintel was selected for an $84 million contract with the United States Cyber Command to deliver a threat intelligence solution in support of full-spectrum cyber operations.<\/p>\n

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Qintel also just announced it will be part of the inaugural Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, which Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.) is hosting in July. The two-day conference convenes CEOs, investors, and senior military leaders to boost state defense investments, nuclear and natural gas energy, and AI, much as the Energy Innovation Summit did at Carnegie Mellon University last summer.<\/p>\n

Qintel is a private data technology threat intelligence company that has quietly been headquartered in Pittsburgh for nearly 20 years. It was founded by city native William Schambura, a Woodland Hills graduate. Think of ESPN\u2019s Pat McAfee \u2014 Schambura has the same swagger but without the microphone.
\nWalking into their offices on the north side of Pittsburgh, it\u2019s clear that even if the scores of former military and intelligence professionals weren\u2019t from here, they have all embraced the culture of the city and its working-class ethos, while adding a colorful James Bond homage.<\/p>\n

In a world where threats move at warp speed and come from all directions, their job is to utilize their military and intelligence expertise, along with data collection, AI-driven analytics, tools, and software development, to provide portions of the government and corporate America with a system that halts attacks.<\/p>\n

Keith Mularski, a former FBI agent who is now Qintel\u2019s global ambassador, and Damon Matthews, the senior director of national security operations, sat down with the Washington Examiner<\/em> to explain what they do, why they do it, and why Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Anyone in the region who has seen their neon Qintel sign (located on top of their building between PNC Park and Acrisure Stadium) has often wondered what exactly it is. And that curiosity only deepened when nearly 1 million people literally descended on its backyard during the NFL draft this spring.<\/p>\n

The building is located where the long-gone Exposition Park once stood, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and site of the inaugural World Series. Mularski said that he and Schambura first began working together at a small cyber facility in Pittsburgh that was called the National Cyber Forensic and Training Alliance.
\n\u201cThat started in the early 2000s as a place to bring law enforcement, academia, and industry together to fight cyber crime,\u201d Mularski explained.<\/p>\n

They worked undercover for a number of years until Schaumbura started up Qintel with the goal of creating a government-grade intelligence company in the commercial sector.<\/p>\n

For most of its existence, Qintel operated stealthily by design. The vast majority of its portfolio consists of non-forward-facing, highly classified defense and intelligence contracts.<\/p>\n

However, the company recently crossed a significant milestone by establishing a major unclassified and forward-facing partnership with the USCC.<\/p>\n

This contract represents a watershed moment for the firm and is a massive validation of Pittsburgh\u2019s tech landscape. To honor the milestone, Qintel\u2019s leadership has begun opening up to the community and collaborating with organizations like Pittsburgh\u2019s Technology Council, as well as local leadership, to highlight Pennsylvania\u2019s thriving tech corridor.<\/p>\n

Today, Qintel employs fewer than 100 elite personnel. While their operations are distributed, with remote workers spread across regions like Florida, the firm\u2019s cultural heartbeat remains fiercely tethered to western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Every quarter, the entire company flies into town to gather, brainstorm new concepts, and catch a Pirates game together. They are proud, self-proclaimed \u201cYinzers\u201d who view their work not just as a business but as a critical mission to empower the nation\u2019s frontline cyber warriors. Qintel proves that you don\u2019t need a Silicon Valley address to defend the digital frontier \u2014 sometimes all it takes is Pittsburgh grit and a refusal to compromise.<\/p>\n

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From its inception, Qintel departed radically from the traditional Silicon Valley startup playbook. There was no venture capital money, no courting of big-name tech investors, and no constant pressure to satisfy quarterly board meetings. Over its 17-year history, the firm has remained entirely private, homegrown, and self-funded.<\/p>\n

That independence was a deliberate and tactical choice. By remaining self-reliant, the founders could protect their unique corporate culture, shield their elite methodologies, and focus entirely on making bad things happen to bad folks, ranging from highly organized cybercriminal rings to hostile nation-state entities and global terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, Qintel built a powerhouse of diverse talent. On one side sits the data technology team \u2014 engineers and software developers lured away from Fortune 10 giants who handle data collection, massive processing, machine learning integration, and advanced AI analytics. On the other side sits the operational leadership, with veterans pulled directly from federal law enforcement, the intelligence community, and the Department of War.<\/p>\n

The merger of these two worlds solved a fundamental problem plaguing Washington. Historically, the U.S. government has struggled to scale innovation quickly. Bureaucratic acquisition pipelines mean that by the time an agency successfully procures a software application \u2014 a process that can easily take three to five years \u2014 the product is already dangerously obsolete.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bad guys move at the speed of the internet,\u201d Mularski said. \u201cGovernment procurement moves at the speed of paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthews said that they solved this by upending the delivery model.<\/p>\n

Instead of selling a rigid \u201cwidget,\u201d the firm delivers an evolving subscription to live, continuously updating global threat intelligence. No matter how long a federal partner\u2019s internal administrative timeline takes, it is guaranteed to receive the most current, hyper-innovative layer of defense. This development bridges the operational gaps that the founders witnessed firsthand during their undercover days.<\/p>\n

Matthews says that their new partnership with the USCC underscores Qintel\u2019s numerous patented capabilities in full-spectrum intelligence collection, data integration, and analysts honed through decades of elite military and government experience.<\/p>\n

Mularksi, who was the supervisory special agent for the FBI Pittsburgh\u2019s cyber squad, said he always likes to remind people that Pittsburgh is the center of the cyber universe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did some very big cyber cases here, like the first indictment of Chinese nation-state actors,\u201d he said of a case from several years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving us, this cyber threat intelligence company that\u2019s empowering our nation\u2019s cyber warriors, in Pittsburgh is a point of pride for us,\u201d Mularski added. \u201cWe\u2019re really proud that this is coming from Pittsburgh.\u201d<\/p>\n

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