Value-Driven Design is a systems engineering process intended to improve the outcomes of large engineering systems development programs, which typically involve thousands of engineers, billions of euros of cost, and many years to complete. Does this, or does any comparable systems engineering methodology actually work? With such programs, it is impossible to conduct meaningful clinical trials. Also, the programs are sufficiently complex that it is impossible to observe much of what goes on. The Center for System Studies is developing a laboratory in simulation to examine systems engineering processes operating within simulated development programs. This paper reports on progress constructing multi-scaled simulations for this purpose. It also conveys the results of a prototype simulation project.