Industrial engineer; costs expert; whistleblower. Born–July 31, 1926,\u00a0Birmingham. Parents–Arthur A. and Grace Adelle Fitzgerald. Married– Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.S. (industrial engineering), 1951. Served in the U.S.Navy, WWII. Worked in private business, 1951-65. Employed by the Pentagon as Deputy for Management Systems, 1965-1969; fired in 1969 for revealing to a Senate Committee a two-billion dollar cost overrun on the contract for C5A cargo plane construction.\u00a0 Worked as a management consultant while waging a legal battle for reinstatement. Rehired 1973. Worked in productivity management\u00a0for the U.S.Air Force after 1982. Member Institute of Industrial Engineers; American Society for Quality Control; Fund for Constitutional Government; National Taxpayers Union. Awards: Nominee, Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award, 1967; Judge Henry T. Edgerton Award, 1973; Freedom Award, 1967; Marshall Engineers and Scientists Association Award, 1977; Sigma Delta Chi First Amendment Award, 1986; Cavallo Foundation Award, 1988; First Amendment Award, 1989; Paul H. Douglas Ethics In Government Award, 1996.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n Alabama Public Library Service files, Ramparts Magazine, June 1974, and Harpers, July 1974.<\/p>\n Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n Exposing the Pentagon.\u00a0 Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1981.<\/p>\n The High Priests of Waste. New York; Norton, 1972.<\/p>\n The Pentagonists; an Insider’s View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Industrial engineer; costs expert; whistleblower. Born–July 31, 1926,\u00a0Birmingham. Parents–Arthur A. and Grace Adelle Fitzgerald. Married– Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.S. (industrial engineering), 1951. Served in the U.S.Navy, WWII. Worked in private business, 1951-65. Employed by the Pentagon as Deputy for Management Systems, 1965-1969; fired in 1969 for revealing to a Senate Committee a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7669,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/7669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}