In recent years, there's been a major shift: The Pentagon is now buying technology instead of making its own.

Agencies spent $64.7 billion on IT contracts last year, up 9.5 percent from fiscal 2017.

Ongoing efforts at IT modernization are fueling a potential 32 percent surge in federal cloud spending in fiscal 2018, according to Bloomberg Government.

From the outside it appears Deltek and Bloomberg are launching a government market analysis cold war following Deltek’s acquisition of FedSources last week, but Deltek CEO Kevin…