# Fast

Fast or FAST may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* "Fast" (Juice Wrld song), 2019
* "Fast" (Luke Bryan song), 2016
* "Fast" (Sueco song), 2019
* "Fast" (GloToven song), 2019
* Fast, an album by Custom, 2002
* Fast, a 2010 short film starring Charlyne Yi
* "Fast (Motion)", 2021 song by Saweetie
* Fast & Furious, an action franchise

## Computing and software

* FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming
* FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
* Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering
* Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool, software to develop work schedules
* Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection
* Feedback arc set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory

## Government

* Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi, a political party in Samoa
* Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, passed by the United States Congress
* Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams, a former program of the US Drug Enforcement Administration; see Drug Enforcement Administration § Special Response Teams
* Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States and Mexico-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

### Military

* Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a unit of the United States Marine Corps
* Fuel And Sensor Tactical packs, a type of conformal fuel tank developed for the F-15
* Future Assault Shell Technology helmet, an American combat helmet

## Organizations

* FAST Multimedia AG, former company located in Munich; vendor of graphics boards, video frame grabbers and video processing software; later consumed by Pinnacle Systems
* FAST and later as Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies
* Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, an aviation museum
* Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
* Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade
* Firefighter assist and search team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters
* Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology

## People
### People with the given name

* Fast Robinson (born 1994), English actor known professionally as Eddie-Joe Robinson

### People with the surname

* Alexia Fast (born 1992), Canadian actress
* Christian Fast (1762–1841), American soldier and pioneer
* Herman Becker Fast (1887–1945), American businessman, farmer, and politician
* Howard Fast (1914–2003), American novelist and television writer
* Jesper Fast (born 1991), Swedish ice hockey player
* Jonathan Fast (born 1948), American author, son of Howard Fast
* Julius Fast (1919–2008), American author, brother of Howard Fast
* Matt Fast, lead singer of the Canadian punk band The Undecided
* Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), American author, daughter of Jonathan Fast
* Piotr Fast (born 1951), Polish professor and translator

### People with the nickname

* Brian Leiser (born 1972), nicknamed "Fast", musician, member of the band Fun Lovin' Criminals
* Fast Eddie (disambiguation)

## Science and medicine

* FAST (stroke) (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time), a mnemonic for the symptoms of a stroke
* Family System Test, a visualization method for representing cohesion and hierarchy constellations in families and similar social systems
* Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
* Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
* Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (五百米口径球面射电望远镜), a large single-dish radio telescope in Guizhou province, China
* Fluorescence-activating and absorption-shifting tag, genetically encoded protein tag used in molecular biology
* Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
* Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method
* Future Attribute Screening Technology

## Other uses

* Fast Product, a record label
* Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, a thesaurus of subject headings
* Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition
* Fairfield and Suisun Transit
* Free ad-supported streaming television
* USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies