1. A fleet operations data management system comprising: a data collection and distribution network configured to distribute operations data to vehicles or aircrafts in a fleet of vehicles or aircrafts and collect vehicle or aircraft performance data from the vehicles in the fleet of vehicles, the distributed operations data including at least one of travel plans, navigational databases, vehicle operator business data, and passenger information, the collected aircraft performance data including at least one of vehicle body integrity parameters, FADEC performance, CNS/ATM interoperability, and air computing infrastructure characteristics; a plurality of wireless communications channels configured to transfer of data between a vehicle fleet operator and a fleet of vehicles; an adaptive, reconfigurable embedded instrumentation set configured to monitor variable aspects of individual aircraft performance, said instrumentation set is positioned on at least some vehicles of the fleet of vehicles, said instrumentation set configured to filter vehicle performance data acquisition in response to an available communications infrastructure, said instrumentation set is further configured to sample vehicle performance parameters at a rate based on the available communications infrastructure and a phase of travel of the vehicle; and a distributed control function configured to identify an appropriate communications channel for data transfer.