Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published November 6, 2026
The Army said Oct. 12 it will begin forming a second expeditionary cyber battalion within months, while soldiers in the first test drones and help decide what their still-unsettled standard field equipment should be.
A radiofrequency cyber effect works only within radio range of its target. For soldiers on the Army’s Expeditionary Cyber Teams (ECTs), that means carrying sensors, jammers, and batteries toward it. The Army is now testing whether small drones can take on part of that load.