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Inside Qintel: Pittsburgh Tech on the Front Lines of Cyber Defense
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- TechVibe Pittsburgh
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- Apr 20, 2026
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Summary
For most Pittsburghers, Qintel is the company with the big sign on the North Side skyline. For their numerous federal partners across law enforcement, the intelligence community, and the Department of War, it is something else entirely: a data technology-driven threat intelligence company supporting national security to help make sense of a world full of fast-moving threats. We reached out to Damon Mathews, Senior Director of National Security Operations to demystify Qintel. He describes the company as a "data technology company at heart," but that label only hints at the scale of what it does as a data technology company that provides threat intelligence. Qintel builds and delivers a global threat intelligence solution by combining data collection, processing, integration, management, visualization, AI-driven analytics, tools, and software development into one continuously innovating and evolving solution. The goal is to give government partners what Damon calls "decision dominance" in an environment where the volume, complexity, and speed of threats never stop accelerating. The company was founded in Pittsburgh, been in business for about 17 years and is a small cleared defense contractor. The CEO William Schambura, is a Pittsburgh native who graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 1996 and University of Pittsburgh 200/2002. Damon says Qintel accomplished everything as a private company with no outside investment. That makes it even more incredible since establishing a recent enterprise-wide partnership with U.S. Cyber Command under a sole source prime contract with an overall ceiling in the $85 million range over a base period plus several option years. While Damon was careful not to get into specifics or classified aspects, he makes clear that Qintel's multi-u…