Apparatus for management of communications resources of a moving platform comprising a communications system configured to effect wireless data communication between said moving platform and a recipient node, said communications resources comprising a plurality of wireless communications links for facilitating said wireless data communication and a plurality of antennas (22, 501-502, 601-603) associated therewith, the apparatus comprising an antenna analysis and selection module residing with said communications system and configured to: identify a communications requirement between said moving platform and a recipient node ; receive attribute data representative of movement of said platform, said attribute data including: platform movement data comprising a future known position and orientation of said moving platform and/or a future predicted position and orientation of said moving platform and/or said recipient node at a future time; data representative of a pointing direction of each of the plurality of antennas at the future time; and data representative of emissions control criteria associated with said moving platform and/or said recipient node; receive antenna data representative of antenna preference and/or antenna compatibility and/or antenna availability for each of the plurality of antennas, determine a signal quality metric for each of a plurality of antennas, said quality metric being indicative of a respective signal to noise ratio; determine, using said signal quality metric, attribute data and antenna data, an antenna metric for each of the plurality of antennas, the antenna metric being indicative of suitability of a respective one of the plurality of antennas for data transmission from said moving platform to said recipient node at the future time; and select one or more of said plurality of antennas having a highest antenna metric, for said data transmission. identify a communications requirement between said moving platform and a recipient node ; receive attribute data representative of movement of said platform, said attribute data including: platform movement data comprising a future known position and orientation of said moving platform and/or a future predicted position and orientation of said moving platform and/or said recipient node at a future time; data representative of a pointing direction of each of the plurality of antennas at the future time; and data representative of emissions control criteria associated with said moving platform and/or said recipient node; platform movement data comprising a future known position and orientation of said moving platform and/or a future predicted position and orientation of said moving platform and/or said recipient node at a future time; data representative of a pointing direction of each of the plurality of antennas at the future time; and data representative of emissions control criteria associated with said moving platform and/or said recipient node; receive antenna data representative of antenna preference and/or antenna compatibility and/or antenna availability for each of the plurality of antennas, determine a signal quality metric for each of a plurality of antennas, said quality metric being indicative of a respective signal to noise ratio; determine, using said signal quality metric, attribute data and antenna data, an antenna metric for each of the plurality of antennas, the antenna metric being indicative of suitability of a respective one of the plurality of antennas for data transmission from said moving platform to said recipient node at the future time; and select one or more of said plurality of antennas having a highest antenna metric, for said data transmission. <EOS>