Defense Secretary William Cohen has appointed retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Eugene Covert, former head of the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, to the Pentagon's V-22 blue ribbon panel. Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon told InsideDefense.com today that Covert, an aerodynamics expert, is being added to the panel. Covert, a former Air Force chief scientist, served on the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident and is a former chairman of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Covert will...
