Exhibit 99.1
                                                                   Press Release

                                                        Contact:
                                                        John R. Polchin
                                                        Chief Financial Officer
                                                        Convera
                                                        703.761.3700




             Retired General Montgomery C. Meigs Joins Convera Board


Vienna, Va. August 4, 2005 - Convera Corporation (NASDAQ: CNVR) announced today
that Retired United States Army General Montgomery C. Meigs has joined the
Convera Board of Directors. General Meigs was the Commander of the U.S. Army in
Europe from 1998 through 2002 and Commander of NATO's Peacekeeping Force in
Bosnia from 1998 through 1999. General Meigs is currently the Louis A. Bantle
Chair at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Consultant to Chief of
Staff Army's Program for Leader Development of Senior Officers. General Meigs
replaces William Reed who recently resigned.

"We thank Will Reed for his contributions over the past three years and we are
delighted to have a person of accomplishment such as General Meigs to serve on
our Board," said Patrick C. Condo, CEO and President of Convera Corporation.



About Convera Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise
search and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize
return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing
highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of
text, video, image and audio information, in more than 50 languages. More than
900 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a
broad range of applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management,
intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory
compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at
800-788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com


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statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and
prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned
not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these
statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without
limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; the ability to continue
funding operating losses; fluctuations in operating results including impacts
from reduced corporate IT spending and lengthier sales cycles; continued success
in technological advances and development including the Web indexing initiative;
possible disruption in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and
armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced
customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk
factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. Actual results
may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other
important factors relating to Convera's business and product development
efforts, which are further described in Convera's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website
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