SSP is an abbreviation that may stand for:

Arts and entertainment

Silversun Pickups Silversun Pickups is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was formed in 2000. The band is composed of Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, and Joe Lester. The band released their debut EP, '' Pikul'', in July 2 ...

, an American alternative rock band *Super Sonic Power, a line of toys by

Kenner Products Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy brand owned by Hasbro. Kenner Products began as a toy company founded in 1946, going on to produce several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines including action figures for t ...

in the 1970s *

Scottish Society of Playwrights The Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP) is a professional members' organisation representing theatre playwrights in Scotland. It is affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and party to the Theatrical Management Association playwright ...

, trade union

Companies

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglom ...

, stock symbol *

SSP Group SSP is an operator of food and beverage outlets in travel locations. The company, headquartered in London, England, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The business was established as a divis ...

, British company

Economics and finance

* Single Shared Platform, the basis of the

TARGET2 TARGET2 was the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system for the Eurozone from its phased introduction in 2007-2008 until its replacement with T2 in March 2023. As such, it was one of the Eurosystem's TARGET Services, replacing the original TAR ...

real-time gross settlement system *

South Sudanese pound The South Sudanese pound (ISO 4217, ISO code and abbreviation: SSP) is the currency of the South Sudan, Republic of South Sudan. It is subdivided into 100 Piastre, piasters. It was approved by the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly before seces ...

(by ISO code) *

Statutory sick pay Statutory sick pay (SSP) is a United Kingdom social security benefit. It is paid by an employer to all employees who are off work because of sickness for longer than 3 consecutive workdays (or 3 non-consecutive workdays falling within an 8-week p ...

, in the United Kingdom

Government and politics

Political parties and organizations

Party of Freedom and Justice The Party of Freedom and Justice (, abbr. SSP) is a social democratic List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It is led by Dragan Đilas. Founded in 2019 as the merger of the Green Ecological Party – The Greens and Se ...

(''Stranka slobode i pravde''), a political party in Serbia *

Samyukta Socialist Party Samyukta Socialist Party (; SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1974. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964. In 1965, Ram Manohar Lohia merged his Socialist Party (Lohia) with SSP and conteste ...

, in India from 1964 to 1972 *

Scottish Socialist Party The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an Scottish independence, independent Socialism, socialist Scottish Scottish republicanism, republic. The party was fou ...

, founded in 1998 *

Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan The Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS), also known as the Millat-e-Islamiyya (MI), was a banned Sunni Islamist Deobandi organisation in Pakistan. Founded by Pakistani cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in 1989 after breaking away from Sunni Deobandi party Jamiat Ule ...

* Sehajdhari Sikh Party, founded in 2001

Other uses in government

Secretariat of Public Security The Mexican Secretariat of Public Security or Secretariat of Public Safety, also known as the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Public Safety (, ''SSP''), was the federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet Organic Law of the Fede ...

, a federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet **

Ministry of Public Security (Mexico City) Law enforcement in Mexico City is provided by two primary agencies; the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City (Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana de la ciudad de México), who provide uniformed or preventative police, and the Office of ...

Senior Superintendent of Police Senior superintendent, also police senior superintendent or senior superintendent of police, is a senior rank in police forces used in Brunei, Estonia, Germany, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Lesotho, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and formerly in ...

, a senior rank in Indian Police Service

Organizations

Summer Science Program The Summer Science Program (SSP) is an academic summer program where high school students experience college-level education and do research in celestial mechanics by studying the orbits of asteroids, biochemistry by studying the kinetic properti ...

, an academic summer program *

Satellite Sentinel Project The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) was conceived by George Clooney and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast during their October 2010 visit to South Sudan. Through the use of satellite imagery, SSP provides an early warning system ...

, to deter atrocities *

, a trade union *

Sigma Sigma Phi Sigma ( ; uppercase Σ, lowercase σ, lowercase in word-final position ς; ) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 200. In general mathematics, uppercase Σ is used as an operat ...

, an osteopathic medical honor society *

Society for Science & the Public Society for Science, formerly known as Science Service and later Society for Science and the Public, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science, through its science education programs and publications, including ...

Society for Scholarly Publishing The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a professional society, founded in 1978, dedicated to promoting and advancing communication and networking among all sectors of the scholarly communications community. It has approximately 1,100 membe ...

* Swiss Society of Physiology, see Life Sciences Switzerland

Places

Sham Shui Po station Sham Shui Po () is an MTR station located in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The station is located under Cheung Sha Wan Road between Cheung Sha Wan station, Cheung Sha Wan and Prince Edward station, Prince Edward stations on the . Sham S ...

, Hong Kong metro (by station code)

Science and technology

Biology and ecology

Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are climate change scenarios of projected socioeconomic global changes up to 2100 as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on climate change in 2021. They are used to derive greenhouse gas emissions sc ...

, for greenhouse gas scenarios *

Species Survival Plan The American Species Survival Plan or SSP program was developed in 1981 by the (American) Association of Zoos and Aquariums to help ensure the survival of selected species in zoos and aquariums, most of which are threatened or endangered in the w ...

, to home endangered animals in a zoo *

Subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...

, abbreviated ssp.

Computing and telecommunications

*Sakura Script Player, for

Ukagaka Ukagaka (), Nanika (), Sakura (), Nin'i-tan () or Nise-Haruna () is a catch-all term for Japanese software which shares a single format and function. The purpose of the software is to display a character on a computer's desktop. Traditionally, ...

mascot software *Secure Simple Pairing, a Bluetooth pairing mechanism * Security Service Provider *Sender Signing Practices, later

Author Domain Signing Practices In computing, Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP) is an optional extension to the DKIM E-mail authentication scheme, whereby a domain can publish the signing practices it adopts when relaying mail on behalf of associated authors. ADSP was adop ...

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 The System Service Processor (often abbreviated as SSP) is a SPARC-based computer that is used to control the Sun Microsystems Enterprise 10000 platform. The term SSP is often used to describe both the computer hardware and the software that are ...

System Support Program ''System Support Program (SSP)'' is the operating system of the IBM System/34 and System/36 minicomputers. SSP was released in 1977. History SSP originally contained 60 or so commands that were implemented on the System/34 from 1977 to 198 ...

, the operating system of the IBM System/34 and System/36 computers * Synchronous Serial Port *

Supply-side platform A supply-side platform (SSP) or sell-side platform is a technology platform to enable web publishers and digital out-of-home (DOOH) media owners to manage their advertising inventory, fill it with ads, and receive revenue. Many of the larger web ...

, for web advertising *

Subset sum problem The subset sum problem (SSP) is a decision problem in computer science. In its most general formulation, there is a multiset S of integers and a target-sum T, and the question is to decide whether any subset of the integers sum to precisely T''.'' ...

, an NP-complete decision problem *

Six-state protocol The six-state protocol (SSP) is the quantum cryptography protocol that is the version of BB84 that uses a six-state polarization scheme on three orthogonal bases. Origin The six-state protocol first appeared in the article "Optimal Eavesdroppin ...

, a quantum key distribution protocol

Medicine and psychology

Specialist in School Psychology The specialist degree is an academic degree conferred by a college or university. The degree is formatted differently worldwide and may be either a five-year program or a doctoral level graduate program that occurs after a master's degree but befo ...

* Swedish Universities Scales of Personality *Single Specific Primer, in

SSP-PCR The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to make millions to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample rapidly, allowing scientists to amplify a very small sample of DNA (or a part of it) sufficiently to enable detailed st ...

Spaceflight

Space-based solar power Space-based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space with solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to Earth. Its advantages include a higher collection of energy due to the lack of reflection ...

* 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 The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam built on the Narmada River near the town of Kevadiya, in Narmada District, in the Indian state of Gujarat. The dam was constructed to provide water and electricity to the Indian states of Guj ...

, dam project in India *

Sonority Sequencing Principle The sonority sequencing principle (SSP)Selkirk, E. (1984). On the major class features and syllable theory. In Aronoff & Oehrle (eds.) Language Sound Structure: Studies in Phonology. Cambridge: MIT Press. 107-136.Clements, G. N. (1990). The role o ...

, in linguistics

Other uses

* Volkswagen Group Scalable Systems Platform, a car platform *

Special Service Package Police vehicles in the United States and Canada consist of a wide range of Police car, police vehicles used by police and other law enforcement agency, law enforcement officials Law enforcement in the United States, in the United States and Law ...

, for North American police vehicles *

Specialist schools programme The specialist schools programme (SSP), first launched as the Technology Colleges programme and also known as the specialist schools initiative, specialist schools policy and specialist schools scheme, was a government programme in the United ...

, educational programme in the United Kingdom * Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya MRT Line, a rapid transit line in Malaysia *

Needle and syringe programmes A needle and syringe programme (NSP), also known as needle exchange program (NEP), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It ...

, also known as Syringe Service Programs (SSP) {{disambiguation