SAS

Sas or SAS may refer to:

Military special forces

• Special Air Service, the principal special forces unit of the British Army
• French SAS: Predecessor units of the French Army's 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (1er RPIMa)
• Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), an Australian regiment derived from the British Army regiment
• New Zealand Special Air Service (NZ SAS), New Zealand regiment derived from the British Army regiment
• Canadian Special Air Service Company: short-lived post-war Company (not Squadron), 1947-1949.
• The Canadian Airborne Regiment (now disbanded)
• Canadian Special Operations Regiment 2006
• Rhodesian Special Air Service (now disbanded)
• Su Altı Savunma, a special operations unit of the Turkish Navy

Other military

• During the Algerian War, the French army civil-military cooperation units in Algeria were called SAS (Special Administrative Sections)

Geography

• Sas van Gent, the Netherlands

History

• Sas (coat of arms), a Polish coat of arms
• Sas of Moldavia, a Voivode ruling over the lands of what was to become Moldavia between 1354-1358

Science and technology

Astronomy and space exploration

• Small Astronomy Satellite, a series of NASA satellites
  • Uhuru (satellite), also known as SAS-1
  • SAS-2, or Second Small Astronomy Satellite
  • SAS-3, or Third Small Astronomy Satellite
• Space activity suit, a spacesuit which provides mechanical pressure by means of elastic garments
• Space adaptation syndrome, an illness akin to motion sickness experienced by many first-time space travelers

Computing

• SAS (software), an integrated software suite produced by SAS Institute Inc.
• Secure Attention Sequence or secure attention key, a method to invoke a computer operating system's attention, usually signaling it to show the log on screen
• Serial Attached SCSI, a computer bus technology primarily designed for the transfer of data to and from storage devices and drives (e.g., hard disks)
• Spatially Aware Sublayer, an optional sublayer of the MAC that provides spatial reuse in Resilient Packet Ring
• Standalone server
• SUPERAntiSpyware, software application for detecting and removing spyware, adware, malware, trojans, rogue software, worms, rootkits, parasites and other potentially harmful software applications
• Safety Analysis System (SAS), a computer code developed at the Argonne National Laboratory
• Server Attached Storage

Mathematics

• Side-angle-side, a concept in geometry for determining congruence or similarity

Other uses in science and technology

• Secondary Air System, the name given by motorcycle manufacturer Kymco to their secondary air injection system
• Sleep apnea syndrome
• Slot Accounting System protocol, a slot machine communication method created by the International Game Technology (IGT) corporation
• Small-angle scattering, a scattering technique based on the deflection of a beam of particles away from the straight trajectory after it interacts with a sample
• Solvent-accessible surface or accessible surface area, the surface area of a biomolecule that is accessible to a solvent
• Subarachnoid space, the space between the arachnoid mater and pia mater in the brain
• Synthetic aperture sonar, a form of sonar analogous to synthetic aperture radar

Academic organizations

• School of Advanced Study, a listed organization of the University of London with ten member institutes
• School for Advanced Studies, a dual-enrollment high school program in Miami, Florida
• Semester at Sea, a shipboard academic program administered by the University of Virginia
• Sekolah Alam Shah, a premier boarding school in Malaysia
• Shanghai American School, an international school in Shanghai
• Singapore American School, an international school in Singapore
• Slovak Academy of Sciences, the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research
• Society for Amateur Scientists, an American organisation
• Space Access Society, an organization dedicated to increasing the viability and reducing the cost of commercial access to space travel
• Studia Academica Slovaca, a summer school teaching the Slovak language
• Society for Animation Studies, an international scholarly organisation
• St. Augustine's School, a school in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
• Strong American Schools, the nonprofit running "ED in 08," an information and advocacy campaign aimed at bringing education reform to the forefront of the 2008 presidential candidates' campaign policies
• Sussex Archaeological Society
• Sense About Science, a UK body promoting respect for good science

Business

• SAS (TV station), a television station in Adelaide, South Australia
• SAS Institute Inc., a large software company headquartered in North Carolina
• SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System Group, an airline and hotel company in Europe, based in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Scandinavian Airlines System, an airline company in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • Radisson Hotels, branded Radisson SAS in parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia
  • SAS Cargo Group, a cargo company in North Europe
• SAS Shoemakers, a shoe company in Texas
• Société par actions simplifiée, a type of French limited company
• Statements on Auditing Standards, a series of internationally recognized auditing standards
  • Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70: Service Organizations or SAS 70, defines the professional standards used by a service auditor
  • Statement on Auditing Standards No. 99: Consideration of Fraud or SAS 99, defines the professional standards used by auditors in relation to fraud
• Surfers Against Sewage, UK-based environmental campaign group
• Southern Audio Services, also known as Bazooka Audio

Music and literature

• Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock band
• Stubborn All-Stars, a ska band from New York
• Stretch Arm Strong, a band from South Carolina
• Son Altesse Sérénissime, a French book series by Gérard de Villiers

Transport

• Second Avenue Subway, a new subway line in New York City
• The IATA airport code for Salton Sea Airport
• Scandinavian Airlines System, an airline serving the Nordic States

Sports

• San Antonio Spurs, NBA basketball team

Politics

• Sloboda a Solidarita, a conservative liberal political party in Slovakia