ACS or Acs may refer to:

Aviation

  • ACS-3, the military version of Raybird-3, a Ukrainian UAV
  • Aerial Common Sensor, a Lockheed Martin reconnaissance aircraft airframe for the US Army and Navy
  • Air Cess, a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • IATA airport code for Achinsk Airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

Companies and commerce

  • ACS:Law, a British law firm specializing in intellectual property cases
  • Advanced Card Systems, a Hong Kong–based developer of smart cards and smart card readers
  • Advanced Composites Solutions, a Brazilian engineering company specialized in composite materials technology
  • Advanced Contact Solutions, a Philippine business process outsourcing company
  • Affiliated Computer Services, an American business and technology outsourcing company
  • Alaska Communications System, former name of AT&T Alascom, an American communications services company
  • Alaska Communications Systems, an American communications services company, distinct from AT&T Alascom
  • Alternative compensation system, a way to allow reproduction of digital copyrighted works while still paying the authors and copyright owners
  • Applied Communication Sciences, a telecommunications research, engineering and consulting company based in the US
  • Grupo ACS (Actividades de Construcción y Servicios), a civil engineering firm based in Madrid, Spain

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Computing

  • Access Control Server, a component of Cisco's Network Admission Control<!--OK 2nd link--> technology
  • Access Control Server, the server authenticating a card in the 3-D Secure framework
  • Access Control Service, a cloud-based service for authentication and authorization
  • ACS-1 and ACS-360, supercomputers designed but never completed in the 1960s by the IBM Advanced Computing Systems
  • Action Code Script, a scripting language used in video games such as Hexen: Beyond Heretic
  • Adobe Creative Suite, a software package by Adobe Inc.
  • Atacama Large Millimeter Array ("ALMA") Common Software, a control framework used in ground-based astronomy projects
  • Audit Collection Services, a component of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
  • ATA Command Set

Education

  • ACS International Schools, a group of international schools in the UK
  • Advanced Communicator, Silver ("ACS"), Toastmasters International Recognition for advanced Communication training
  • Alabaster City Schools, a school district headquartered in Alabaster, Alabama
  • Alperton Community School, a secondary school in London, UK
  • American College of Sofia, a secondary school in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • American Community School at Beirut, an international private school located in Beirut, Lebanon
  • American Community School in Amman, an international school in Amman, Jordan
  • American Community School of Abu Dhabi, an international school of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • American Community Schools, an English-speaking private school system in Athens, Greece
  • American Cooperative School of La Paz
  • American Cooperative School of Tunis
  • Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, a group of Methodist schools in Singapore
  • Anglo-Chinese Schools, Malaysia, a group of Methodist schools in Malaysia
  • Arkansas Correctional School, a school system in prisons, in Arkansas
  • Associated Colleges of the South, a group of liberal arts colleges in the USA
  • Assumption College School, a catholic high school in Ontario, Canada
  • Aurora Christian Schools, a private PreK-12 school in Aurora, Illinois, USA
  • Avery Coonley School, a private elementary school in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
  • Lehman Alternative Community School, a combined middle and high school Ithaca, New York

Government

  • Administration for Children's Services, governmental agency of New York City
  • American Community Survey, a project of the US Census Bureau
  • Australian Customs Service, former Australian government agency for border protection, duties and taxes (1985–2009)

Medicine

  • Acetyl-CoA synthetase, an enzyme
  • Abdominal compartment syndrome
  • Acute compartment syndrome
  • Acute coronary syndrome, a form of chest pain due to reduced oxygen supply to the heart muscle
  • Advanced Cataract Surgery, the modern method of cataract removal using phacoemulsification
  • Alternate care site, a non-traditional medical treatment facility established in a public health crisis
  • Atriocaval shunt, a surgical procedure
  • 2-Amino-3-carboxymuconic semialdehyde, a chemical in tryptophan metabolism

Military

  • Army Combat Shirt, flame-resistant shirt developed for the US Army
  • Attack Characterization System
  • Auxiliary crane ship, a US Navy hull
  • Cavalry Corps (Ireland) (1st Armoured Cavalry Squadron), an armoured reconnaissance unit of the Irish Army

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Organizations and societies

  • Active Club Scotland, a far-right hate group linked to the worldwide Active Club Network
  • American Cancer Society, an American voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer
  • American Ceramic Society, an American professional organization
  • American Cheese Society, a professional organization of the American cheese industry
  • American Chemical Society, an American professional association
  • American College of Surgeons, a fellowship of American surgeons
  • American Colonization Society, an organization that helped in founding Liberia as a colony for freed slaves
  • American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, an organization of lawyers and law students in the US
  • American Cryonics Society, non-profit corporation that supports and promotes research and education into cryonics
  • American CueSports Alliance, a US-based pool league <!--they do not use "ACSA"-->
  • Association of Caribbean States, an advisory, consultative body of Caribbean countries
  • Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, an association founded England in 1973 to collect cricket data
  • Audience Council Scotland, a BBC Trust organisation in Scotland
  • Australian Cinematographers Society, a professional not-for-profit organisation
  • Australian Computer Society, an association for information and communications technology professionals
  • Australian Cricket Society, an association of cricket lovers
  • Automobile Club of Switzerland, a Swiss motor sports organization
  • Redfern Aboriginal Children's Services, a community services organisation for Indigenous children in Sydney, Australia

Sports

  • AC Sparta Prague, a Czech football club
  • AC Sporting, a Lebanese football club

Technology and science

  • Advanced Camera for Surveys, an instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a NASA technology demonstration for future small spacecraft
  • Air cavity system, a modern marine craft design concept based upon capturing air beneath a vessel's hull to reduce drag and increase speed and fuel efficiency
  • Anticenter shell, a supershell located outside of the galaxy
  • Attitude control system, a spacecraft system

Other uses

  • An abbreviation for Acroá language, an extinct Ge language of Brazil
  • Acs (surname), a surname
  • American Crime Story, an anthology television series

See also

  • Ács, a Hungarian town