NDS

NDS may stand for:

Low German (Dutch: Nedersaksisch, German: Niederdeutsche Sprache, ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands
Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen), a federal state of Germany
NDS Group, a company specializing in television technology, including digital rights management, renamed Cisco Videoscape after its acquisition
- NDS is also used as shorthand for VideoGuard, the encryption system created by NDS Group
National Directorate of Security, the primary foreign and domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan
Nintendo DS, a 2004 portable game system
Novell Directory Services, former name for NetIQ eDirectory, directory service software for a network
New Data Seal, a block cipher encryption algorithm that was designed at IBM in 1975
News Distribution Service, operated by the UK government's Central Office of Information
Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale), a political party in Burkina Faso known in English as New Social Democracy
Navigation Data Standard, a format for automotive-grade navigation databases
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)
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
Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a neighborhood in Stockholm

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