The taunt is a passive aura with a 10' radius. If I'm soloing an AV, for example, I can summon a drone before the fight out of range, and that drone will engage the AV outside of the 10' radius and last the entire duration. If I summon a drone during the fight while the AV is in melee range, the drone's taunt aura will pull aggro from the AV who will immediately two-shot the drone.
Unfortunately Gun Drone has become least useful in situations where I would want it the most. Even with endurance reduction the power still costs a quarter of my endurance bar, so I can't afford to chain-summon these things only to have them blow up in a couple of seconds. And really, I don't want it to taunt. I just want it to do some halfway-decent single-target damage. Drop the taunt aura, or at least give us an option to disable it, and I think Gun Drone would be fine.