the truth, Fitzgerald was a driving force for whistleblower protections. Fitzgerald continued to fight a four-decade-long campaign against fraud, waste, and abuse within the department. On page 108 in his book The Pentagonists, he states that "The Carter Reform Act -- or, as many people I knew called it, the Carter Deform Act -- was a reckless reversal of governmental progress since 1883, and promised some dire developments." Career chronology 1951–1953, quality control engineer, Stockham Valves and Fitting Co., Birmingham, Ala. 1953–1954, quality control engineer, Hayes Aircraft Corp. 1954–1957, senior plant industrial engineer, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. 1957–1961, managing associate and principal, Arthur Young and Co. 1962–1965, president, Performance Technology Corp. 1965–1970, deputy for management systems, U.S. Air Force 1970–1973, consultant to Joint Economic Committee, House Post Office and Civil Service Commission, and corporate director of Rockland Industries 1973–1982, deputy for productivity management, U.S. Air Force 1982–2006, management systems deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. Awards and honors 1967 Air Force nominee, Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award 1973 Judge Henry T. Edgerton Award 1976 Freedom Award 1977 Marshall Engineers and Scientists Association Award 1986 Sigma Delta Chi First Amendment Award 1988 Cavallo Foundation Award 1989 First Amendment Award, Tau Beta Phi, Alpha Pi Mu and Phi Eta Sigma, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. 1996 The Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award Professional memberships and associations Institute of Industrial Engineering American Society for Quality Control Director, Fund for Constitutional Government Past chairman, National Taxpayers Union Books authored The High Priests of Waste (1972) The Pentagonists: An Insider's View of Waste, Mismanagement and Fraud in Defense Spending (1989) Electric Machinery: The Processes, Devices, and Systems of Electromechanical Energy Conversion (1952) See also Anti-Gag Statute Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense Department of Defense Whistleblower Program Notes References Paul Douglas Ethics in Government Award biography Nixon vs. Fitzgerald The Journal of Public Inquiry, Marshalling Whistleblower Protection by Eric B. Kempen and Andrew P. Bakaj, https://web.archive.org/web/20100527094148/http://www.ignet.gov/randp/sp09jpi.pdf at 6. Meister, Christoph: Missbrauch des Executive Privilege. Der Whistleblower A. Ernest Fitzgerald vor dem U.S. Kongress und die Reaktion der Regierung Nixon, in: The Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies, Vol.7, No. 1 (2012). 67-78. American whistleblowers American political writers American male non-fiction writers American industrial engineers University of Alabama alumni 1926 births