NDS may stand for:
Places
edit- Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen), a federal state of Germany
- Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a neighborhood in Stockholm
Groups, organizations
edit- National Directorate of Security, the primary foreign and domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan
- NDS Group (News Digital Systems), a company specializing in television technology, including digital rights management, renamed Cisco Videoscape after its acquisition
- News Distribution Service, operated by the UK government's Central Office of Information
- New Democratic Party (Serbian: Нова демократска странка, Nova demokratska stranka), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party Social Democratic Party (Serbia) (Социјалдемократска странка, Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS)
- Nightdive Studios, a video game developer
- Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale, a political party in Burkina Faso known in English as New Social Democracy
Computing, Electronics, Telecommunications
edit- NDS is also used as shorthand for VideoGuard, the encryption system created by NDS Group
- Navigation Data Standard, a format for automotive-grade navigation databases
- New Data Seal, a block cipher encryption algorithm that was designed at IBM in 1975
- Nintendo DS, a 2004 portable game system
- Novell Directory Services, former name for NetIQ eDirectory, directory service software for a network
Other uses
edit- Low German (ISO 639-2 language code:
nds
), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands - Nick Dal Santo (born 1984), Australian Rules footballer
- NASA Docking System, a spacecraft docking and berthing mechanism being developed for future US human spaceflight vehicles
- National Defense Strategy of the United States Secretary of Defense