One embodiment of a vehicle management and control system having a main computer installed with a main operating system and a master control framework. The method includes using a lightning matched filter receiver having a bank of filters matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms for detecting lightning. The redundancy of a second path, which links the specified second host volume and a second storage volume, is decided based on the first-path-redundancy information. As the form is built, the corresponding hierarchical schema is incrementally updated to reflect changes made to the electronic form.