NDS may stand for: Low German (, , ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands Lower Saxony (), 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 , 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 (, ), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party Social Democratic Party (Serbia) (, , 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 See also NDSH NDSI (disambiguation) NDSL (disambiguation) NDSM NDSS (disambiguation) NDSU NDSV NDSW