Robert Hindsley received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1986, modeling photometric observations of Cepheid variable stars. He was employed at the US Naval Observatory in Washington from 1986 through 1999, working in New Zealand from 1988 through 1991, where he was widely thought to be a spy. In the mid '90's he helped develop the astrometric pipeline for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In 1999 he moved to the Naval Research Laboratory, and was involved in development and build-out of the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) near Flagstaff, AZ. From 2009 through 2011 he was the Spectrophotometric Scientist for the Joint Milliarcsecond Astrometric Pathfinder (JMAPS) satellite being developed by the US Naval Observatory. After cancellation of JMAPS in 2011 he was loaned to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, now working in Chantilly, VA.