OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS NASA HAS BEEN INTENSIVELY STUDYING FUTURE ASTROPHYSICS MISSIONS AT MID- AND FAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS INCLUDING THE FLAGSHIP-CLASS ORIGINS SPACE TELESCOPE (OST) AND THE PROBE-CLASS GALAXY EVOLUTION PROBE (GEP). THESE MISSION STUDIES FOLLOW THE BROAD ENDORSEMENT OF A "FAR-INFRARED SURVEYOR" MISSION IN THE 2013 30-YEAR ROADMAP STUDY CHARTERED BY NASA AND THE 2010 DECADAL SURVEY RECOMMENDATION FOR NASA PARTICIPATION IN THE JAXA/ESA SPICA FAR-IR MISSION. NOT SURPRISINGLY THE OST AND GEP STUDIES HAVE IDENTIFIED DETECTOR ARRAYS AS THE HIGHEST-PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY NEEDING DEVELOPMENT. IN THIS PROPOSAL WE OFFER TO ADDRESS ESSENTIALLY ALL OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DETECTOR NEEDS FOR OST AND GEP AND FOR SUB-ORBITAL PRECURSORS INCLUDING THE FULL 10-400 MICRON WAVELENGTH RANGE THE VARIED SENSITIVITY REQUIREMENTS SCALABILITY TO THE DESIRED ARRAY FORMATS AND EVEN TO OPEN A PATH TOWARD HIGHLY STABLE PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS NEEDED FOR MID-IR BIOSIGNATURE CHARACTERIZATION OF TERRESTRIAL EXOPLANETS WITH OST. WE ADDRESS ALL OF THESE NEEDS IN A TIMELY INTEGRATED HIGHLY EFFICIENT PROGRAM BY FOCUSING ON A SINGLE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY NAMELY DIRECT-ABSORPTION (MICROWAVE) KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS (MKIDS OR KIDS) USING ALUMINUM AS THE SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIAL.