SSA or ssa may refer to:

Geography

  • Sub-Saharan Africa

Organizations

  • Sainsbury's Staff Association
  • Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, an American hedge fund
  • Scottish Socialist Alliance, a coalition of left-wing bodies, fore-runner to the Scottish Socialist Party
  • Seismological Society of America, an international scientific society founded 1906
  • Shan State Army, a former insurgent group in Burma
  • Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association, a former British trade union
  • Singapore Scout Association, a youth movement founded in 1910
  • Slovak Society of Actuaries (), a professional association in Slovakia
  • Soaring Society of America, an American sporting society founded in 1932
  • Society for the Study of Addiction, a British society with charitable status
  • Society of Scottish Artists, an artists society founded in 1891
  • SSA Global Technologies, an American software company acquired by Infor Global Solutions
  • Steamship Authority, a Massachusetts ferry service and regulatory body
  • Sudan Studies Association, an American professional association
  • Swedish Society of Radio Amateurs, an amateur radio organization

Education

  • School of Saint Anthony, Quezon City, Philippines
  • Secular Student Alliance, United States
  • Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Government

  • Saudi Space Agency, a Saudi government agency
  • Senior Special Assistant, a Nigeria government role
  • Social Security Administration, an independent agency of the U.S. federal government
  • Social Security Agency (Northern Ireland)
  • Selective Service Act of 1917, an American piece of legislation signed by President Woodrow Wilson during WWI that established nationwide conscription
  • State Security Agency (South Africa), a South African intelligence service

Computing

  • Stochastic Simulation Algorithm
  • Serial Storage Architecture
  • Singular Spectrum Analysis
  • Software Security Assurance
  • Solid State Array, in flash data storage using solid-state drives
  • Start of Selected Area, a control character in the C1 control code set
  • Static single-assignment form, a property of intermediate representations used in compilers
  • Stationary Subspace Analysis
  • Strong subadditivity of quantum entropy
  • SubStation Alpha and .ssa file format, a video subtitle editor
  • Super systolic array

Science

  • Semantic structure analysis
  • Single-strand annealing in homologous recombination
  • Side-side-angle in geometry for solving triangles
  • Specific surface area, a property of solids

Medicine

  • Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies
  • Senile systemic amyloidosis
  • Sessile serrated adenoma, a type of pre-malignant intestinal polyp
  • Special somatic afferent
  • Sulfosalicylic acid

Other uses

  • ESA Space Situational Awareness Programme
  • Same-sex attraction
  • Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the Government of India's Education for All programme
  • Self-sampling assumption
  • Serious Sam Advance, a 2004 video game
  • Shared services agreement
  • Slippery slope argument, a rhetorical device (and often a fallacy)
  • Special Service Agreement, between the UN and a contractor
  • Special services area or business improvement district
  • SSA, Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of South Africa
  • Supervisory Special Agent
  • Salvador Bahia Airport, an IATA code
  • Nilo-Saharan languages, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-5 codes