# SPS

SPS may refer to:

## Law and government

* Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO
* NATO Science for Peace and Security
* Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy
* The Standard Procurement System, for the US Department of Defense
* Somali Postal Service
* Staff and Personnel Support Branch, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps

### Police and prisons

* Scottish Prison Service
* Singapore Prison Service, 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)
* Surrey Police Service, British Columbia, Canada
* Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

## Organisations

* Sahara Press Service, of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
* Sierra Peaks Section
* SPS Commerce
* SPS Technologies, Inc., acquired by Precision Castparts Corp.
* Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the UK
* Swiss Society of Proteomics, of Life Sciences Switzerland

### Education

* New York University School of Professional Studies
* Sadiq Public School, a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
* Saint Paul Seminary, a Catholic seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, US
* Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge, UK
* Society of Physics Students
* Springfield Public Schools (Missouri), school district, US
* St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, Asansol, India
* St. Paul's School (disambiguation), various schools
* Stromness Primary School, a primary school in Stromness, Orkney

### Political parties

* Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
* Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia
* Soy Porque Somos, Colombian left-wing political movement founded in 2021

### Religion

* Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, Ireland, post-nominal
* Society for Pentecostal Studies

## Science and technology

* Solanapyrone synthase, an enzyme
* Sucrose-phosphate synthase, a plant enzyme involved in sucrose biosynthesis
* Spark plasma sintering
* Special weather statement, US
* Stand-alone power system, an off-the-grid electricity system
* Standard positioning service, a Global Positioning System feature
* Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN

### Computing

* Shell Processing Support, a file format for seismic data
* IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System and IBM 1620/1710 Symbolic Programming System, assemblers

### Medicine and psychology

* Sensory processing sensitivity, the defining personality trait of Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs)
* Stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
* Syntactic positive shift, a peak in brain activity

### Military and space

* Service propulsion system in the Apollo service module
* Solar power satellite, to beam power to Earth
* Side protection system or torpedo belt of a warship
* SR-1 Vektor (Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova – Serdyukov Self-loading pistol)

## Transportation

* Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
* Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States

## Other uses

* Abbreviation of San Pedro Sula, second largest city in Honduras.
* Sony Imaging Pro Support, for photographers
* SPS (Mongolia), a TV channel
* Sam Petrevski-Seton, an Australian rules footballer