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
• Shram Sanskriti Party founded in 2025

Other uses in government

• Secretariat of Public Security, a federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet
  • Ministry of Public Security (Mexico City)
• Sehat Sahulat Program, a Pakistani healthcare initiative
• 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 Structure and Parameterization, a simulation system exchange format, companion to Functional Mock-up Interface
• 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)