Exhibit
      31.1





CERTIFICATION





In
      connection with the Annual Report of Convera Corporation (the "Company") on
      Form
      10-K for the period ended January 31, 2006 as filed with the Securities and
      Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Report"), I, Patrick C. Condo,
      President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to
      Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14, that:





|(1) | I
              have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Convera
              Corporation;
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|(2) | Based
              on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement
              of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
              the
              statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
              were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
              annual report;
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|(3) | Based
              on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
              included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects
              the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the
              registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual
              report;
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|(4) | The
              registrant's other certifying officers and I are responsible for
              establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
              defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal
              control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
              13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f))for
              the registrant and we have:
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|a) | designed
              such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
              controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure
              that material information relating to the registrant, including its
              consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those
              entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report
              is
              being prepared;
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|b) | designed
              such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
              control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,
              to
              provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
              reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
              purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
              principles;
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|c) | evaluated
              the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures
              and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness
              of
              the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period
              covered
              by this report based on such evaluation;
              and
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|d) | disclosed
              in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over
              financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent
              fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely
              to
              materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial
              reporting; and
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|(5) | The
              registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based
              on our
              most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting,
              to
              the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's
              board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
              function):
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|a) | all
              significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
              operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
              reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record,
              process, summarize and report financial information;
              and
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|b) | any
              fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
              employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal
              control
              over financial reporting.
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By: /s/
      Patrick C. Condo


Patrick
      C. Condo


President
      and Chief Executive Officer


March
      30,
      2006