An antenna system comprising: a plurality of lens sets forming a wide-angle multiple beam phased array, each lens set including: a lens having a nominal focal point and either being a substantially flat lens constructed using one or more layers of a metasurface or diffraction grating or being a flattened lens; at least one feed element aligned with the lens and configured to direct a signal through the lens at a desired direction; wherein either the antenna system comprises at least one actuator (172, 174) for moving each of the at least one feed elements with respect to the lens to achieve the desired signal direction, or the at least one feed element of each lens set comprises a plurality of feed elements (152a, 152b) aligned with the lens for the purposes of directing a signal through the lens in different directions, and where the lens sets are not identical in geometry, dielectric profiles, or a combination thereof, or wherein the plurality of lens sets is placed in a nonuniform tiling configuration, wherein the tiling configuration of the plurality of lens sets is configured to improve the antenna radiation pattern over a wide field of regard and/or frequency range. a plurality of lens sets forming a wide-angle multiple beam phased array, each lens set including: a lens having a nominal focal point and either being a substantially flat lens constructed using one or more layers of a metasurface or diffraction grating or being a flattened lens; at least one feed element aligned with the lens and configured to direct a signal through the lens at a desired direction; wherein either the antenna system comprises at least one actuator (172, 174) for moving each of the at least one feed elements with respect to the lens to achieve the desired signal direction, or the at least one feed element of each lens set comprises a plurality of feed elements (152a, 152b) aligned with the lens for the purposes of directing a signal through the lens in different directions, and where the lens sets are not identical in geometry, dielectric profiles, or a combination thereof, or wherein the plurality of lens sets is placed in a nonuniform tiling configuration, wherein the tiling configuration of the plurality of lens sets is configured to improve the antenna radiation pattern over a wide field of regard and/or frequency range. a lens having a nominal focal point and either being a substantially flat lens constructed using one or more layers of a metasurface or diffraction grating or being a flattened lens; either being a substantially flat lens constructed using one or more layers of a metasurface or diffraction grating or being a flattened lens; at least one feed element aligned with the lens and configured to direct a signal through the lens at a desired direction; wherein either the antenna system comprises at least one actuator (172, 174) for moving each of the at least one feed elements with respect to the lens to achieve the desired signal direction, or the at least one feed element of each lens set comprises a plurality of feed elements (152a, 152b) aligned with the lens for the purposes of directing a signal through the lens in different directions, and where the lens sets are not identical in geometry, dielectric profiles, or a combination thereof, or wherein the plurality of lens sets is placed in a nonuniform tiling configuration, wherein the tiling configuration of the plurality of lens sets is configured to improve the antenna radiation pattern over a wide field of regard and/or frequency range.