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>>14742122
>make a diagram that would break down the various nuclear development efforts

You need a diagram to follow the 3 demonstration programs?

DARPA has an NTP demonstration called DRACO. The NTP engine will be made by General Atomics and both Blue Origin and Lockheed are competing to make the demonstration spacecraft that will use it.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-04-12

DIU awarded contracts to demonstrate both Ultra Safe's REP craft and Avalanche Energy's "micro-fusion reactor".
https://spacenews.com/diu-selects-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-designs-for-2027-demonstrations/

NASA's nuclear program is the one we know the least about, mostly relying on inferred information such as that Artemis 8 will have a demonstration or their planned manned Mars mission.