Qintel Wins $84 Million U.S. Cyber Command Contract for Threat Intelligence

Qintel was awarded an $84 million contract with United States Cyber Command to deliver a threat intelligence solution supporting full-spectrum cyber operations. The Pittsburgh-based company described the agreement as an unclassified, forward-facing partnership.

U.S. Army War College in Carlisle in July. Sen. ) is hosting the two-day conference, which will convene CEOs, investors and senior military leaders to discuss state defense investments, nuclear and natural gas energy, and AI.

Qintel is a private data-technology threat-intelligence company that has been headquartered in Pittsburgh for nearly 20 years. It was founded by Pittsburgh native William Schambura, a Woodland Hills graduate, and employs fewer than 100 personnel. The company has operated for 17 years as a self-funded, private firm without venture-capital investment.

Its headquarters building sits on Pittsburgh’s north side between PNC Park and Acrisure Stadium, on the former site of Exposition Park. Keith Mularski, Qintel’s global ambassador and former supervisory special agent of the FBI Pittsburgh cyber squad, and Damon Matthews, the company’s senior director of national security operations, discussed the firm’s work in an interview.

Mularski and Schambura previously worked together at the National Cyber Forensic and Training Alliance in Pittsburgh starting in the early 2000s.

Mularski stated that Pittsburgh was the site of the first indictment of Chinese nation-state cyber actors. Matthews said Qintel holds multiple patented capabilities in full-spectrum intelligence collection and data integration. The company’s operations are distributed, with remote workers in regions such as Florida, but every quarter the entire staff flies into Pittsburgh to gather and attend a Pirates game.