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Boeing set to upgrade Tacamo aircraft cockpit
Engineers at the Boeing Co. in Seattle are starting design of a cockpit upgrade for the U.S. Navy E-6 Tacamo aircraft that experts believe may lead to upgrades for other Boeing military 707-based aircraft such as the Airborne Warning and Command System ? better known as AWACS ? and the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ? also known as Joint STARS. The Tacamo upgrade reportedly will replace more than 100 instrument dials with six electronic displays. A contract to do the upgrade work