SSP

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SSP is a three-letter acronym that may stand for:

*Sad Soft Productions, a web development company
*Sardar Sarovar Project, controversial mega-dam project in North-West India.
*Scottish Society of Playwrights, a trade union
*Select Service Partner, an operator of food and beverage brands owned by EQT Partners
*Settlement service provider (Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
*Shooting Star Press, a professional wrestling aerial technique
*Social Science Press (New Delhi, India)
*Solid-state physics, the largest branch of condensed matter physics
*Sonority Sequencing Principle, a phonotactic principle that aims to outline the structure of a syllable in terms of sonority.
*Southern State Parkway, a highway in New York
*Space solar power, the conversion of solar energy into power from a location in outer space.
*Special Service Package, a trim designation for Ford products used by Police Departments. (e.g. Ford Mustang SSP)
*Specialist in School Psychology
*Species Survival Plan, helps endangered animals find a home in a zoo
*Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh
*Statutory sick pay in the UK
*Sterling State Park
*Stock symbol for E. W. Scripps Company.
*Subspecies (usually abbreviated ssp.)
*Summer Science Program
*Super Sonic Power, a Kenner toyline from the 1970s
*Surface Science Package, Huygens probe
*Surround Sound Processor
*Swedish Universities Scales of Personality, a personality test.

Computers and networking

*Samba Sharing Package, a package of a port of Samba to early versions of Mac OS X (Samba is bundled with later versions of OS X)
*S@t Session Protocol (SIMAlliance)
*Serial SCSI Protocol
*Security Service Provider
*Sender Signing Policy: now known as Author Domain Signing Practises, in the context of E-mail
*Server-to-Server Protocol
*Service switching point
*Shared Services Provider
*Single Streaming Processor
*Specialized Support Programs
*Stack-smashing protection
*Storage service provider
*Supplementary Special-purpose Plane in the context of Unicode
*Switch-to-Switch Protocol
*System Security Plan in the context of FISMA
*System Service Processor (Sun Microsystems)
*System Support Program an operating system of IBM's midrange computers
*Synchronous Serial Port
*System Stack Pointer

Politics and government

*Samyukta Socialist Party
*Scottish Socialist Party, campaigns for an independent and socialist Scotland
*Scottish Socialist Party (1987), an older socialist movement in Scotland from 1987–1990
*Senegal Socialist Party
*Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
*State Secrets Privilege

Government Rank

*Senior Superintendent of Police

Entertainment

* Shameless Self Promotion, such as practiced by Paris Hilton et al.
* South Side Posse, an R&B and hip hop band from Angola