Education
Cotton received a Bachelor"s degree in Electrical Engineering at in 1980 and also received a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983.
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Rickey Cotton
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Career
Cotton joined the Georgia Technical Research Institute (GTRI) as a research engineer in 1980 and quickly became instrumental in the expansion of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (Sea, Air, Land) by forging a strong relationship with the Office of Naval Intelligence. A protégé of Richard C. Johnson, Cotton helped oversee GTRI"s installation of the compact radar range at Fort Huachuca in 1989. He was named a division chief at Sea, Air, Land in 2000.
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GTRI named the Rickey B. Cotton Electromagnetic Phenomenology Laboratory at the Cobb County Research Facility in his honor in 2011.
