NDS may stand for:

Places

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

(), a federal state of Germany *

Norra Djurgårdsstaden Norra Djurgårdsstaden (officially ''Stockholm Royal Seaport'' in English) is a large area of central Stockholm, Sweden. The area is located in the borough of Östermalm and is undergoing brownfield redevelopment. The area consists of former ha ...

, a neighborhood in Stockholm

Groups, organizations

National Directorate of Security The National Directorate of Security (NDS; ; ) was the national intelligence agency, intelligence and security agency, security service of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The headquarters of the NDS was in Kabul, and it had field offices and ...

, the primary foreign and domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan *

NDS Group NDS may stand for: Places * Lower Saxony (), a federal state of Germany * Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a neighborhood in Stockholm Groups, organizations * National Directorate of Security, the primary foreign and domestic intelligence agency of Afghan ...

(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 The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency. Its chief executive reported to the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It was a non-ministerial department, and became an executive agency and a ...

* New Democratic Party (, ), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party

Social Democratic Party (Serbia) The Social Democratic Party (, abbr. SDS) is a centre-left political party in Serbia. The party was founded and is headed by Boris Tadić, who was previously president of the Democratic Party and the former President of Serbia. Between June ...

(, ', SDS) *

Nightdive Studios Night Dive Studios, Inc. (trade name: Nightdive Studios) is an American video game developer based in Vancouver, Washington and a subsidiary of Atari SA. The company is known for obtaining rights to abandonware video games, updating them for co ...

, a video game developer * ', a political party in Burkina Faso known in English as

New Social Democracy New Social Democracy (in French: ''Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale, NDS'') is a political party in Burkina Faso. Mamadou Samba Barry New Social Democracy (in French: ''Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale, NDS'') is a political party in Burkina Faso ...

NEC Display Solutions Sharp NEC Display Solutions (Sharp/NEC; formerly NEC Display Solutions or NDS and NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems or NEC-Mitsubishi or NM Visual) is a manufacturer of computer monitors and large-screen public-information displays, and has ...

, former name of Sharp NEC Display Solutions, a display manufacturer

Computing, electronics, telecommunications

* NDS is also used as shorthand for

VideoGuard VideoGuard (sometimes referred to simply as ''NDS''), produced by NDS, is a digital encryption system for use with conditional access television broadcasting. It is used on digital satellite television systems – some of which are operated by ...

, 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 The is a foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens worki ...

, a 2004 portable game system *

Novell Directory Services eDirectory is an X.500-compatible directory service software product from NetIQ. Previously owned by Novell, the product has also been known as Novell Directory Services (NDS) and sometimes referred to as ''NetWare Directory Services''. NDS was ...

, former name for NetIQ eDirectory, directory service software for a network

Other uses

Low German Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...

(ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands *

Nick Dal Santo Nick Dal Santo (born 22 February 1984) is the senior coach of the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL Women's competition and a retired Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda and North Melbourne Football Club, ...

(born 1984), Australian Rules footballer *

NASA Docking System The NASA Docking System is NASA's implementation of the International Docking System Standard (IDSS), an international spacecraft docking standard promulgated by the International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board. NDS is a Docking an ...

, a spacecraft docking and berthing mechanism being developed for future US human spaceflight vehicles *

National Defense Strategy The National Defense Strategy (NDS) is produced by the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and is signed by the United States Secretary of Defense as the United States Department of Defense's (DoD) capstone strategic guidance. ...

of the United States Secretary of Defense

Places

Groups, organizations

Computing, electronics, telecommunications

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