Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I funding has been received from the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to advance Alphacore’s www.alphacoreinc.com photon sensitive camera for future space-based LADAR-driven missile defense systems. The rad hard programmable digital readout integrated circuit (DROIC), with low SWaP-C, delivers imaging solutions that support multi-mission operations. Its programmability offers versatile remote sensing for flexible passive and active imaging solutions.