Boeing dedicated the first of three maintenance hangars in Oklahoma City to support U.S. Air Force E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet. The maintenance, repair and overhaul technology center (MROTC) is located across from Tinker Air Force Base. In 2005, Boeing signed a lease with the MROTC development partners to construct three hangars that will be used for the AWACS upgrades. Future phases of the project include a major military and commercial aircraft facility with 17 hangars and more than one million square feet of related industrial space and education and training facilities. Other modernizations of the space include mission computing hardware and software, operational console displays and controls and upgraded radar equipment. Boeing and Tinker personnel will begin installing the enhancements in 2009. More