NDS explained

NDS may stand for:

Places

Lower Saxony (de|'''N'''ie'''d'''er'''s'''achsen|links=no), a federal state of Germany
Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a neighborhood in Stockholm

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 (sr|Нова демократска странка|links=no, Serbian: Nova demokratska stranka), temporarily in 2014 the name for the Serbian political party Social Democratic Party (Serbia) (Serbian: Социјалдемократска странка, Serbian: Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS)
Nightdive Studios, a video game developer
French: Nouvelle Démocratie Sociale, a political party in Burkina Faso known in English as New Social Democracy

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