Having mostly served federal identity use cases in her career, Michelle Wilson made the jump in May 2025 to set up Blue Calvary Solutions. Based in Virginia, she now leads an elite consulting firm with lots of international experience in identity management, secure credential design and issuance, and human capital strategy.
She is still at the forefront of digital identity transition and driving seamless travel, encountering the common challenge of interoperability for government and private sector. The sets of challenges are to “transition old processes to new” and find modernised standards and technology to encode interoperability. That’s where multiple people can use a credential in different places to achieve real engagement.
“We’re also seeing from requirements that people want that frictionless, seamless experience”, which she understands from her time in the federal government at TSA. People love the touchless identity process of PreCheck and remote enrolment practices, as opposed to depending on travel documents.
Wilson explained the lessons for governments in what capabilities to ask for in procurements. The government in so many ways is still learning about what technologies are capable of.
“We’re starting to get right back into that standard space”. Wilson explains that standards should not compete but blend together on achieving security, user experience and privacy, helping the private sectors and government to meet these essential requirements.
