NDS

NDS may stand for:

Places

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 ({{langx|sr|Нова демократска странка|links=no}}, {{lang|sr|Nova demokratska stranka}}), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party Social Democratic Party (Serbia) ({{lang|sr|Социјалдемократска странка}}, {{lang|sr-Latn|Socijaldemokratska stranka}}, SDS)
Nightdive Studios, a video game developer
{{lang|fr|Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale}}, 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

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

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