1. Barker, Ed. “Obituary: James H. Trexler,” Labstracts: News from the Naval Research Laboratory, 8 May 2006.
2. Butrica, Andrew. To See the Unseen: A History of Planetary Radar Astronomy Washington, D.C.: NASA History Office NASA SP-4218, 1997.
3. DeVorkin, David. “Who Speaks for Astronomy? How Astronomers responded to government funding after World War Two,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 31, Part I (2000): 55–92.
4. Gebhard, Louis A. Naval Research Laboratory Report 8300 Evolution of Naval Radio-Electronics and Contributions of the Naval Research Laboratory, 1979. (This book-length work places Trexler’s projects in the context of NRL research and development history, but the author demurs on citing individual contributions to projects).
5. Needell, Allan. Science, Cold War and the American State: Lloyd Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideals (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution and Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000): 259–296. (see Chapter 10 Expanding Federal Support of Private Research: The Case of Radio Astronomy”).