The group will train Veterans Health Administration employees on "new ways to use innovation and creativity within VA."

The agency's second annual Innovation Experience on Oct. 22-23 will put its latest advances in medical modeling, VR/AR and other technologies at the public's fingertips.

Dcode started as a tech accelerator helping companies do business with government. "But we realized we were only solving half the problem," said its CEO.

"It is a multi-cloud world and data is everywhere and all of these technologies have to come together," Dell says. "And this is really the most important work we can do because the world is being transformed digitally."

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Lateral Innovation division will lead weeklong design sprints connecting public and private sectors.

Additionally, the agency failed to protect critical information technology assets found to be vulnerable two years ago, which could lead to intellectual property theft.