NDS may stand for:

Places

  • Lower Saxony (), a federal state of Germany
  • Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a neighborhood in Stockholm

Groups, organizations

  • National Design Studio, an agency of the White House Office
  • 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 (, ), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party Social Democratic Party (Serbia) (, ', SDS)
  • Nightdive Studios, a video game developer
  • ', a political party in Burkina Faso known in English as New Social Democracy
  • NEC Display Solutions, former name of Sharp NEC Display Solutions, a display manufacturer

Computing, electronics, telecommunications

  • 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

  • Low German (ISO 639 language code: <code>nds</code>), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands
  • New Design series, a currency series of the Philippine peso
  • 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

See also

  • ND (disambiguation), for the singular of NDs
  • NDSH
  • NDSI (disambiguation)
  • NDSL (disambiguation)
  • NDSM
  • NDSS (disambiguation)
  • NDSU
  • NDSV
  • NDSW