Perhaps I'll use the example of putting a certain material on a part of an aircraft--a thermoplastic resin system. Some initial research work has been done at the universities in terms of developing some initial processes and properties, but how do you build a structure on an aircraft, which is a panel with ribs to support it, and develop that technology? Once you develop that technology it could be used in the under body, the wing skin, and as part of the fuselage. So the same technology could be used in different areas of the aircraft.
Once you've developed the initial phase, where you're looking at the joining and forming methods of those materials, that would be considered pre-competitive. It's not specifically aimed at an end product, but it is generic technology that could then be tailored to a specific product area by a company that is very interested in producing that type of product.