Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published October 30, 2026
As the Army continues to determine the standard issue equipment for the 11th Cyber Battalion, it is experimenting with drones capable of delivering “tailored cyber effects” and jamming, according to an acquisition official.
The Army is testing its Radiofrequency Delivery Effects Platform (RDEP) on small drones, using a mix of government-developed and commercial-off-the-shelf payloads to deliver “non-kinetic effects” at the tactical edge, Col. David Bergmann, project manager for cyber warfare, told Breaking Defense. While Bergmann didn’t specify, those are typically jamming capabilities as well as gaining access to Wi-Fi systems, to name a few.