SPS may refer to:

Law and government

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, also known as the SPS Agreement or just SPS, is an international treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agree ...

of the WTO *

NATO Science for Peace and Security The NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme is a NATO programme supporting civil science cooperation and innovation. Created in 2006 as the merger of the NATO Science Committee (SCOM) and the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Societ ...

* Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy *

The Standard Procurement System The Standard Procurement System (SPS) is a software suite providing front-office business services to Acquisition professionals in the United States Department of Defense. Program History SPS is an outgrowth of the DoD Corporate Information Mana ...

, for the US Department of Defense * Somali Postal Service *

Staff and Personnel Support Branch The Adjutant General's Corps is a corps in the British Army responsible for many of its general administrative services, named for the Adjutant-General to the Forces (now the Commander Home Command). As of 2002, the AGC had a staff of 7,000 peo ...

, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps

Police and prisons

Scottish Prison Service The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with managing prisons and Young Offender Institutions. The Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, currently Teresa Medhurst, is responsible f ...

Singapore Prison Service The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) is a government agency of the Government of Singapore under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs. It runs 14 prisons and drug rehabilitation centres in Singapore. Its responsibilities encompass the s ...

, a government agency of the Government of Singapore under the hierarchy of the Ministry of Home Affairs * Station police sergeant or station sergeant, former UK police rank *

State Police Services (India) The State Police Services (SPS), also simply known as State Police, are the police services under the control of respective state governments of the States and union territories of India. Recruitment The recruitment to this service is done by the ...

* Surrey Police Service, British Columbia, Canada *

Saskatoon Police Service Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) is the municipal police service in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It holds both municipal and provincial jurisdiction. Police Chief Troy Cooper is the head of the service. The deputy chiefs are Deputy Chief Randy ...

, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Organisations

Sahara Press Service Sahara Press Service (SPS) is the multi-lingual official press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, the government in exile of the Western Sahara. The agency mainly report government-related news and current Sahrawi affairs, both from ...

, of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic *

Sierra Peaks Section The Sierra Peaks Section (SPS) is a mountaineering society within the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club that serves to provide mountaineering activities for Sierra Club members in the Sierra Nevada, and to honor mountaineers who have summited Sie ...

* SPS Commerce * SPS Technologies, Inc., acquired by

Precision Castparts Corp. Precision Castparts Corp. is an American industrial goods and metal fabrication company that manufactures investment castings, forged components, and airfoil castings for use in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, and defense industries. In ...

* Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the UK * Swiss Society of Proteomics, of

Life Sciences Switzerland Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) is the Swiss federation of scientific societies for life sciences. It was formerly known as the Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB). Life Sciences Switzerland is a member of the Swiss A ...

Education

Sadiq Public School The Sadiq Public School (SPS) is a college-preparatory boarding school located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. It also takes day pupils. It is one of the largest schools in Pakistan and its area of makes it both the largest in the country and ...

, a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan *

New York University School of Professional Studies The New York University School of Professional Studies ( also known as SPS ), previously known as the New York University School of Continuing Education, is one of the schools and colleges that compose New York University. Founded in 1934, the ...

* Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge, UK *

Society of Physics Students The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association with international participation, granting membership through college chapters with the only requirement that the student member be interested in physics. All college majors a ...

Springfield Public Schools (Missouri) Springfield Public Schools (SPS), also known as the Springfield R-12 School District, is a public school district headquartered in Springfield, Missouri, United States. With an official fall 2020 enrollment of 24,309 students attending 35 elemen ...

, school district, US * St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, Asansol, India * St. Paul's School (disambiguation), various schools

Political parties

Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia ( sr, Социјалистичка партија Србије, Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) is a political party in Serbia. It is led by Ivica Dačić. It was founded in 1990 as the direct successor to ...

(''Socijalistička partija Srbije''), a political party in Serbia *

Union of Right Forces )"Liberty, Property, Legality"(russian: "Свобода, Собственность, Законность") , headquarters = Moscow , newspaper = Just Cause , membership_year = 2007 , membership = 57,410 , ideology ...

(''Soyuz Pravykh Sil''), a former political party in Russia

Religion

Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions St. Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions (Latin ''Societas Sancti Patritii pro Missionibus ad Exteros''; also known as the Kiltegan Fathers) is a Catholic society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men composed of missionary priests ...

, Ireland, post-nominal *

Society for Pentecostal Studies The Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) is an American scholarly association of biblical scholars, theologians, and others who are members of Pentecostal churches or are involved in the Charismatic Renewal. It was founded in 1970. The members o ...

Science and technology

Solanapyrone synthase Prosolanapyrone-III cycloisomerase (, ''Sol5'', ''SPS'', ''solanapyrone synthase (bifunctional enzyme: prosolanapyrone II oxidase/prosolanapyrone III cyclosiomerase)'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''prosolanapyrone-III:(-)-solanapyrone A iso ...

, an enzyme *

Spark plasma sintering Spark plasma sintering (SPS), also known as field assisted sintering technique (FAST) or pulsed electric current sintering (PECS), or plasma pressure compaction (P2C) is a sintering technique. The main characteristic of SPS is that the pulsed or u ...

Special weather statement A Special Weather Statement (SAME event code SPS) is a form of weather advisory. Special Weather Statements are issued by the National Weather Service of the United States (the NWS) and the Meteorological Service of Canada (the MSC). There are no ...

, US *

Stand-alone power system A stand-alone power system (SAPS or SPS), also known as remote area power supply (RAPS), is an off-the-grid electricity system for locations that are not fitted with an electricity distribution system. Typical SAPS include one or more methods of e ...

, an off-the-grid electricity system * Standard positioning service, a Global Positioning System feature *

Super Proton Synchrotron The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland. History The SPS was d ...

, a particle accelerator at CERN

Computing

Shell Processing Support Shell Processing Support (SPS) is a set of formatted files used for exchanging Land 3D seismic data. They can also be used for 2D. History Shell Processing Support data format was initially defined and used by Shell Internationale Petroleum for t ...

, a file format for seismic data *

IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System The IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System (SPS) was an assembler that was developed by Gary Mokotoff, IBM Applied Programming Department, for the IBM 1401 computer, the first of the IBM 1400 series. One source indicates that "This programming s ...

and IBM 1620/1710 Symbolic Programming System, assemblers

Medicine and psychology

Sensory processing sensitivity Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a temperamental or personality trait involving "an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social and emotional stimuli". The trait is characteri ...

, a personality trait of Highly Sensitive Persons *

Stiff person syndrome Stiff-person syndrome (SPS), also known as stiff-man syndrome (SMS), is a rare neurologic disorder of unclear cause characterized by progressive rigidity and stiffness. The stiffness primarily affects the truncal muscles and is superimposed by s ...

, a rare neurologic disorder * Syntactic positive shift, a peak in brain activity

Military and space

* Service propulsion system in

Apollo service module The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functioned as a mother shi ...

Solar power satellite Space-based solar power (SBSP, SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space by solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to Earth. Its advantages include a higher collection of energy due to the lack of reflection and a ...

, to beam power to Earth * Side protection system or

torpedo belt The torpedo belt was part of the armouring scheme in some warships between the 1920s and 1940s. It consisted of a series of lightly armoured compartments, extending laterally along a narrow belt that intersected the ship's waterline. In theory thi ...

of a warship *

SR-1 Vektor The SR-1 Vektor also known as the Gyurza (''Гюрза'', Russian for "blunt-nosed viper") or Serdyukov SPS is a 9×21mm Gyurza semi-automatic pistol designed for the Russian military. The firearm is currently produced as the SR1M. Design deta ...

(Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova – Serdyukov Self-loading pistol)

Transportation

Wichita Falls Municipal Airport Wichita Falls Regional Airport is a public and military use airport six miles north of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas. Its runways and taxiways are shared with Sheppard Air Force Base; most operations are military, but American Eagle f ...

(IATA airport code) *

Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S) was a railroad in the northwest United States. Incorporated in 1905, it was a joint venture by the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway to build a railroad along the north bank of ...

, a defunct railroad in the United States

Other uses

* Sony Imaging Pro Support, for photographers *

SPS (Mongolia) SPS (named Монгол Улсын Лаг-Мундаг- Онцгой Суваг (English: 'Mongolian Premier Channel') before 31 March 2008) is the television channel of SPC, the Mongolian National Broadcasting Service, launched in 1985. The cha ...

, a TV channel