The ETG team was selected to provide the County of Los Angeles and the cities of Commerce, Downey, Lakewood, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier with a defense adjustment framework. ETG fashioned analytic tools and data bases for the defense adjustment strategy as well as engineered a collaborative strategy process. The resulting action plan mobilizes the diverse communities of Southeast Los Angeles to work together to leverage their defense/aerospace work force, subcontractors and site assets in a highly competitive regional, state and global market place. This project addresses all facets of defense industry adjustment, including patterns of aerospace and defense worker displacement, identifies opportunities and risks arising from cluster growth and decline, and assesses training and retraining resources integrating this information into a data base and cluster development strategy process. ETG developed an action plan to create, retain, expand and attract clusters to the SELAC areas through a strategy that links economic development with specific aerospace/defense adjustment initiatives for displaced workers, subcontractors and sites in a collaborative and strategic process.