title: wikileaks assange promises hillarys arrest with next release
text: carter reveals upgrades to us long range rocket  
  sputnik news 
  on tuesday us defense secretary ashton carter announced that the armys tactical missile system atacms will be upgraded to strike both land and sea targets such technology will go a long way to defending allies against the chinese menace and battling moscows aggression in the baltics 
  the missile system is sponsored by an office created by carter in  the strategic capabilities office which is currently being lead by will roper a protege of the secretarys during a panel at the center for strategic and international studies csis on friday roper told an audience how you offset the adversaries trying to offset your offset its very simple to do that you just dont talk about your best capabilitieswe are keeping our best ideas behind the door and probably always will according to breaking defense 
  after the panel he continued we thought it was important to come out in public with atacms for the army because theres been a lot of writing a lot of speeches on the need for the army to go crossdomain high ranking officials in the us military have been calling for the atacms to extend its capabilities seaward for some time and roper responded to these concerns saying its time for us to show it isnt just a theoretical idea its something we can potentially get to quickly with something that we already have 
  during a morning session at csis carter spoke of the new innovative features of the atacms and how the sco tries to maximize the potential of existing systems 
  a prominent theme of scos work is spearheading creative and unexpected new ways to use our existing missiles and advanced munitions and across varied domains he said adding  by integrating an existing seeker onto the front of the missile theyre enabling it to hit moving targets both at sea as well as on land with this capability what was previously an army surfacetosurface missile system can project power from coastal locations up to  kilometers into the maritime domain 
  carter detailed the scos plans to utilize seeker technology that the defense department has already developed so the missile system can hit targets both on sea and land 
  lockheed martin was awarded the  million contract for the long range artillery rocket system in may  ken musculus vice president of tactical missiles at the defense contractor said at the time that atacms is reliable and proven in combat which is why it continues to be our customers choice for longrange strike requirements