RECENTLY A NASA SATELLITE MISSION PROVISIONALLY NAMED INFLATION PROBE HAS BEEN PROPOSED TO SEARCH FOR B-MODE POLARIZATION IN THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMB) THE "SMOKING GUN" FOR THE THEORY OF COSMIC INFLATION AND A WINDOW INTO PHYSICS AT MUCH HIGHER ENERGIES THAN THAT POSSIBLE IN ACCELERATOR EXPERIMENTS. INFLATION PROBE WOULD REQUIRE EFFICIENTLY MULTIPLEXED DETECTORS WITH BACKGROUND-LIMITED SENSITIVITY; THE TWO MOST PROMISING DETECTOR TECHNOLOGIES ARE THE SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION EDGE SENSOR (TES) AND THE SUPERCONDUCTING MICROWAVE KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTOR (MKID). HOWEVER NEITHER TECHNOLOGY CURRENTLY SATISFIES BOTH THE MULTIPLEXING AND SENSITIVITY REQUIREMENTS. I PROPOSE TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE BY PERFORMING DETECTOR READOUT WITH THE DISPERSION- ENGINEERED TRAVELING-WAVE KINETIC INDUCTANCE (DTWKI) AMPLIFIER. THE DTWKI IS A NEW SUPERCONDUCTING PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER CONCEPT THAT IS PREDICTED TO HAVE HIGH GAIN-BANDWIDTH ACHIEVING GREATER THAN 20 DB OVER A FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTH OF 30% ON EACH SIDE OF THE PUMP LARGE DYNAMIC RANGE WITH SATURATION POWER ~100 UW AND NEAR QUANTUM-LIMITED NOISE PERFORMANCE. HOWEVER THE DTWKI IS YET TO ACHIEVE THESE BENCHMARKS. I PROPOSE TO REACH THESE BENCHMARKS THROUGH A MULTI-PRONGED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM BASED ON MODELING OF DTWKI GAIN PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DTWKI S NITRIDE THIN FILMS OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSMISSION LINE GEOMETRIES AND NEW THERMAL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL INVOLVE EXTENSIVE COLLABORATION WITH NASA S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY AND UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. IF SUCCESSFUL THE DTWKI WILL HAVE A REVOLUTIONARY IMPACT ON OBSERVATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS ENABLING UNPRECEDENTED SENSITIVITY NOT ONLY IN INFLATION PROBE BUT ALSO IN NASA'S FAR-INFRARED AND X-RAY ASTRONOMY MISSIONS.