The careers of 185 previously unemployed aerospace and defense industry professionals are documented, following completion in August 1971 of a 1-month orientation to urban affairs entitled Project ADAPT (Aerospace and Defense Adaptation to Public Technology). Funded by the Labor Department and by the Housing and Urban Development Project to provide vocational retraining for careers in state and local government, both the orientation and subsequent evaluation are part of the Joint Aerospace Employment Project (AEP) of the National League of Cities/U.S. Conference of Mayors (NLC/USCM). Persons who completed the ADAPT orientation were about five times as likely to enter public service, chiefly in local government agencies, than were comparable non-participants in the program. Although the participants' civic and urban involvements increased due to this program, participant characteristics did not significantly affect either their rate of job placement or their job performance. The best predictor of successful skills adaptations was the readiness of the hiring agency to accommodate innovative management techniques. These tentative evaluations of project outcomes showed that 70 percent of the participants were professionally employed 8 months later, and almost 61 percent of those employed were in public service. Extensive resource materials were appended. (AG)