NSS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • New Star Soccer, a computer game
  • Newsstand Specials, a spinoff of Playboy magazine
  • Nintendo Super System, an arcade game cabinet that plays Super NES games
  • Northern Sound System, a youth music education centre and venue in Adelaide, South Australia
  • NSS, a 1958 computer chess program

Organizations

Government bodies

  • National Security Secretariat (United Kingdom), part of the Cabinet Office
  • National Security Service (disambiguation), the name of several intelligence services
  • National Seismological Service, an agency of the Mexican government
  • National Service Scheme, a Government of India-sponsored program for community service and social activities
  • National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia, former name of the Statistical Committee of Armenia
  • NHS National Services Scotland, the central support agency to the NHS in Scotland

Political parties

  • People's Socialist Party of Montenegro, a political party in the Republic of Montenegro
  • National Power Unity, a far-right party in Latvia
  • People's Peasant Party (Narodna seljačka stranka), a political party in Serbia

Schools

  • National Sport School (Canada), a high school in Alberta, Canada
  • Nauru Secondary School, a high school in Nauru
  • National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), the organization for school pupils in the Third Reich
  • Northbrooks Secondary School, a secondary school in Yishun, Singapore
  • Northern Secondary School, a high school in Toronto, Canada

Companies

  • National Screen Service, an American company involved in cinema advertising
  • New Skies Satellites, the former name of the Dutch spacecraft operator SES NEW SKIES
  • Norsk Spisevognselskap, a dining car company of Norway

Other organizations

  • Nair Service Society, a community welfare organization for the Nair community from Kerala, India
  • National Space Society, an international space advocacy organization
  • National Sculpture Society, US
  • National Secular Society, a British organization
  • National Speleological Society, an American organization
  • Nilachala Saraswata Sangha, a religious organization
  • National Service Scheme, Indian government-sponsored public service programme

Politics and government

  • National Security Strategy (United States)
  • National Shelter System, a database of emergency shelters in the US administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • National Student Survey, a survey of final-year degree students in the UK
  • Nuclear Security Summit, a summit on nuclear security established by US President Obama

Science and technology

Computing

  • National Security System, a kind of US government information and telecommunication systems
  • Name Service Switch, a technology used in UNIX
  • Namespace Specific String, a part of the syntax of a Uniform Resource Name
  • Network Security Services, cryptographic software libraries first developed at Netscape for client and server security
  • Network switching subsystem, a component of the mobile-phone network
  • Novell Storage Services, a file system used by the Novell NetWare operating system
  • NSS, a 1958 computer chess program

Other uses in science and technology

  • Neurological soft signs, signs of disturbance in neurology
  • Neutral salt spray, a salt spray test to qualify the corrosion resistance of coatings on metal
  • Normal saline solution, in medicine
  • NSS Annapolis, a US Navy VLF and HF radio transmitter site in Annapolis, Maryland

Other uses

  • Nostalgia Super Stock, a drag racing class

See also

  • NS (disambiguation)