NDS

NDS may stand for:
 * Lower Saxony (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
 * Nightdive Studios, a video game developer
 * 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 (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

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