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IDS may refer to:

Computing

• IBM Informix Dynamic Server, a relational database management system
• Ideographic Description Sequence, describing a Unihan character as a combination of other characters
• Integrated Data Store, one of the first database management systems from the 1960s
• Internet distribution system, a travel industry sales and marketing channel
• Intrusion detection system, detecting unwanted network access
• Iterative deepening search, a graph search algorithm performing depth-first search repeatedly with increasing depth limits

Organizations

• Incomes Data Services, a British employment research organisation
• Industrial Dwellings Society, a British housing association
• Institute of Development Studies, a British international development organisation
• International Distribution Services, a legal name of Royal Mail since 3 October 2022
• Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, former name of a Boeing Defense, Space & Security
• Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, Inspectors of the Security Police (Sipo} and the security service (SD), regional commanders, of Nazi Germany
• Integrated Defence Staff, an Indian military organisation
• Investors Diversified Services, former name of Ameriprise Financial
• Istrian Democratic Assembly, a Croatian political party
• Indiana Daily Student, a newspaper
• Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
• International Dermoscopy Society, an international medical academic society
• Initiative for Democratic Socialism
• Institute for the German Language

Science, technology and engineering

• Iduronate-2-sulfatase, a sulfatase enzyme associated with Hunter syndrome
• Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
• Integrated Deepwater System Program, a program to upgrade equipment of the US Coast Guard
• Tornado IDS (Interdictor/strike), a version of the Panavia Tornado combat aircraft
• IDS experiment (ISOLDE Decay Station), at the ISOLDE facility, CERN

Other uses

• Iain Duncan Smith (born 1954), British politician, widely referred to by his initials
• IDS Center, building in Minneapolis, tallest in Minnesota, US
• Infant-directed speech or baby talk
• Information disclosure statement, to the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Integrated delivery system, a generic term for a health care network that provides a variety of care
• Income declaration scheme
• Intercontinental Dictionary Series, an online linguistic database
• International Dental Show, an annual trade fair in Cologne, Germany
• International District/Chinatown station, a light rail station in Seattle, Washington, US
• Île-des-Soeurs station, a light metro station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

See also

• International Docking System Standard (IDSS), an international standard for spacecraft docking