# SSP

SSP is an abbreviation that may stand for:

## Arts and entertainment

* Silversun Pickups, an American alternative rock band
* Super Sonic Power, a line of toys by Kenner Products in the 1970s
* Scottish Society of Playwrights, trade union

## Companies

* E. W. Scripps Company, stock symbol
* SSP Group, British company

## Economics and finance

* Single Shared Platform, the basis of the TARGET2 real-time gross settlement system
* South Sudanese pound (by ISO code)
* Statutory sick pay, in the United Kingdom

## Government and politics
### Political parties and organizations

* Party of Freedom and Justice (Stranka slobode i pravde), a political party in Serbia
* Samyukta Socialist Party, in India from 1964 to 1972
* Scottish Socialist Party, founded in 1998
* Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
* Sehajdhari Sikh Party, founded in 2001

### Other uses in government

* Secretariat of Public Security, a federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet
** Ministry of Public Security (Mexico City)
* Senior Superintendent of Police, a senior rank in Indian Police Service

## Organizations

* Summer Science Program, an academic summer program
* Satellite Sentinel Project, to deter atrocities
* Scottish Society of Playwrights, a trade union
* Sigma Sigma Phi, an osteopathic medical honor society
* Society for Science & the Public
* Society for Scholarly Publishing
* Swiss Society of Physiology, see Life Sciences Switzerland

## Places

* Sham Shui Po station, Hong Kong metro (by station code)

## Science and technology
### Biology and ecology

* Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, for greenhouse gas scenarios
* Species Survival Plan, to home endangered animals in a zoo
* Subspecies, abbreviated ssp.

### Computing and telecommunications

* Sakura Script Player, for Ukagaka mascot software
* Secure Simple Pairing, a Bluetooth pairing mechanism
* Security Service Provider
* Sender Signing Practices, later Author Domain Signing Practices for E-mail
* Serial SCSI Protocol, for SAS disk drives
* Service switching point
* Storage service provider
* Supplementary Special-purpose Plane, in Unicode
* System Service Processor
* System Support Program, the operating system of the IBM System/34 and System/36 computers
* Synchronous Serial Port
* Supply-side platform, for web advertising
* Subset sum problem, an NP-complete decision problem
* Six-state protocol, a quantum key distribution protocol

### Medicine and psychology

* Specialist in School Psychology
* Swedish Universities Scales of Personality
* Single Specific Primer, in SSP-PCR

### Spaceflight

* Space-based solar power
* Space Studies Program, at the International Space University
* Surface Science Package, part of the Huygens probe

### Other uses in science and technology

* Sardar Sarovar Project, dam project in India
* Sonority Sequencing Principle, in linguistics

## Other uses

* Volkswagen Group Scalable Systems Platform, a car platform
* Special Service Package, for North American police vehicles
* Specialist schools programme, educational programme in the United Kingdom
* Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya MRT Line, a rapid transit line in Malaysia
* Needle and syringe programmes, also known as Syringe Service Programs (SSP)