DCS may refer to:

Government

* Danish Council of State, the privy council of Denmark *

Defense Clandestine Service The Defense Clandestine Service (DCS) is an arm of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which conducts clandestine espionage, intelligence gathering activities and classified operations around the world to provide insights and answer national-l ...

, a component of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency * Department of Child Safety (or Services), or Child protective services, the name for an agency asked with protecting children from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect * Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), as in: ** Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (disambiguation) ** Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff ** White House Deputy Chief of Staff *

Diplomatic Courier Service Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents: especially, historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, p ...

, a branch of the US Bureau of Diplomatic Security tasked with protecting diplomatic pouches and material *

Directorate of Colonial Surveys The Ordnance Survey International or Ordnance Survey Overseas Directorate its predecessors built an archive of air photography, map and survey records for the United Kingdom from 1946 to 1999. The Ordnance Survey International Collection (formerly ...

, the United Kingdom's central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates 1946–1957 *

Dutch Council of State The Council of State ( nl, ) is a constitutionally established advisory body in the Netherlands to the government and States General that officially consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political ...

, a constitutionally-established advisory body to the government of the Netherlands

Law enforcement

Department of Corrective Services The New South Wales Department of Prisons, later the Department of Corrective Services (DCS), was a State government agency in New South Wales, Australia, that managed prisons, parole and community service. Established in 1874 as the Departmen ...

, department of New South Wales Government responsible for supervision of adult offenders on community-based or custodial orders * Detective Chief Superintendent, the senior detective and commander of the Criminal Investigation Department in most forces in the United Kingdom * Georgia Department of Community Supervision, the executive branch agency of the U.S. state of Georgia tasked with the supervision of felony probationers and parolees

Education

* Dade Christian School, a private school in Miami-Dade County, Florida *

Dayton City School Dayton City School (DCS) is a municipal school district in Dayton, Tennessee which consists of a single K-8 school. The district's attendance boundary is the city limits of Dayton. High school students attend Rhea County High School, operated by ...

, a school district and elementary/middle school in Dayton, Tennessee * Dean Close School *

Desert Christian Schools (Arizona) Desert Christian Schools is a private Christian school system in Tucson, Arizona , "(at the) base of the black ill , nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town" , image_map ...

, in Tucson, Arizona *

Desert Christian Schools (California) Desert Christian Schools, or DCS, is a private Christian school in Lancaster, California. DCS shares their property with Grace Chapel. DCS uses RenWeb as their school management system. History A group of leaders of the First Baptist Church in ...

, a private school in Lancaster, California * Diploma of Collegial Studies, a certificate awarded for completion of pre-university studies in the province of Québec, Canada * Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores, a High/Middle Charter School located in Miami Shores, Florida

Medicine

D-cycloserine Cycloserine, sold under the brand name Seromycin, is a GABA transaminase inhibitor and an antibiotic, used to treat tuberculosis. Specifically it is used, along with other antituberculosis medications, for active drug resistant tuberculosis. It ...

a GABA transaminase inhibitor and an antibiotic * Decompression sickness, symptoms suffered by a person exposed to a reduction in the pressure surrounding their body * Dendritic cells, a type of antigen presenting cell of immunologic function *

Dorsal Column Stimulator A spinal cord stimulator (SCS) or dorsal column stimulator (DCS) is a type of implantable neuromodulation device (sometimes called a "pain pacemaker") that is used to send electrical signals to select areas of the spinal cord (dorsal columns) fo ...

, an implantable medical device used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin *

Damage control surgery Damage control surgery (DCS) is surgical intervention to keep the patient alive rather than correct the anatomy. It addresses the "lethal triad" for critically ill patients with severe hemorrhage affecting homeostasis leading to metabolic acidosis ...

, a form of surgery which is used in cases of severe trauma *

Delusional companion syndrome Delusional companion syndrome is considered a neuropathology of the self, specifically a delusional misidentification syndrome. Affected individuals believe certain non-living objects possess consciousness and can think independently and feel emot ...

, a psychological neuropathology of the self

Technology

Data Coding Scheme Data Coding Scheme is a one-octet field in Short Messages (SM) and Cell Broadcast Messages (CB) which carries a basic information how the recipient handset should process the received message. The information includes: * the character set or mess ...

is a field in SMS and CB messages which carries information about message encoding *

Dark current spectroscopy Dark current spectroscopy is a technique that is used to determine contaminants in silicon Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and i ...

, a technique used to find contaminants in silicon * Departure control system, airline computer systems responsible for passenger and bag processing activities *

Desktop Color Separations Desktop Colour Separation (DCS) is an enhanced Encapsulated PostScript file format that was introduced by Quark, Inc. It is now primarily used for specialised graphics work particularly images that use multiple channels, e.g. when applying different ...

, an enhanced EPS file format *

Device Control String The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII. The codes represent non-printable character, additional information about the text, such as t ...

, hex 90 in the C1 set of control codes *

Dichlorosilane Dichlorosilane, or DCS as it is commonly known, is a chemical compound with the formula H2SiCl2. In its major use, it is mixed with ammonia (NH3) in LPCVD chambers to grow silicon nitride in semiconductor processing. A higher concentration of DCS ...

, SiH₂Cl₂, used in microelectronic wafer processing *

Digital Cellular System A cellular network or mobile network is a communication network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless. The network is distributed over land areas called "cells", each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver (typically thre ...

, a mobile communications-based PCS network used outside of the U.S. * Digital Command System, a model railroad system by MTH Electric Trains *

Digital Compression System Digital Compression System, or DCS, is a sound system developed by Williams Electronics. This advanced sound board was used in Williams and Bally pinball games, coin-op arcade video games by Midway Manufacturing, and mechanical and video slot ma ...

, a sound system developed by Williams Electronics *

Digital cross connect system A digital cross-connect system (DCS or DXC) is a piece of circuit-switched network equipment, used in telecommunications networks, that allows lower-level TDM bit streams, such as DS0 bit streams, to be rearranged and interconnected among highe ...

, a type of telecom equipment * Digital-Coded Squelch, a squelch that superimposes a continuous stream of FSK digital data on the transmitted signal * Distributed control system, a control system in which the controller elements are not central in location but are distributed throughout the system * Dwight Cavendish Systems, a manufacturer of video copy protection * Form D Control System, a subset of the Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee operating rules for railroads *

Kodak DCS The Kodak Digital Camera System is a series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs that were released by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005. They are all based on existing 35mm film SLRs from Nikon, Canon ...

, a series of professional digital single-lens reflex cameras * Dry Combat Submersible, a military submarine being developed for use by the United States Navy

Entertainment

* Dead Celebrity Status, a Canadian rap rock group * Desi Culture Shock, a UK Bhangra group * ''

Digital Combat Simulator ''Digital Combat Simulator'', or ''DCS'', is a combat flight simulation game developed primarily by Eagle Dynamics and The Fighter Collection. Several labels are used when referring to the ''DCS'' line of simulation products: ''DCS World'', ''Mo ...

'', a combat flight simulator developed by Eagle Dynamics

Other

* Deacon (Church of Scotland), postnominal for a deaconess or deacon of the Church of Scotland * Deaf Children's Society, a British charity for deaf people and their families * Dynamic Cooking Systems, now a unit of Fisher & Paykel * {{disambiguation