Officials are using a state-of-the-art military technology known as “rapid DNA” to identify the dozens of victims killed in the California boat fire, according to a new report.

Grieving relatives of those aboard the doomed diving boat, known as the Conception — which caught fire and sank off the coast of Southern California early Monday — have been left in limbo as they await official confirmation of their loved ones’ fate.

To speed up the process, emergency workers have been deploying the new “rapid DNA” technology over the past 24 hours, Fox News reported. Family members have been required to provide DNA swabs, according to the report.

“Rapid DNA testing refers to completely automated testing of DNA, testing samples in less than two hours using portable ‘all-in-one’ instruments,” Mehul Anjaria, a Los Angeles-based forensic DNA specialist, told the network. “It does not require a trained DNA laboratory analysis or environment to conduct. Its portability is the key.”

Officials announced Wednesday that rescuers have found all but one of the bodies of the 34 people aboard the ill-fated boat. But positively identifying them is a difficult task that could be aided by the new technology, experts said.

“It’s incredible technology and is going to change the way law enforcement does business,” Jim Davis, a former FBI agent and chief federal officer for ANDE, a firm at the forefront of the “rapid DNA” testing industry, told FOX. “It’s basically a lab on a block of plastic that uses the same basic chemistry and processing that is used in traditional labs.”

ANDE was on the job last year to help California sheriffs positively identify wildfire victims and issue death certificates in a timely fashion.

“Burn victims can be very hard to identify,” Davis told the outlet. “In these fires, we were able to go there and do testing on badly burned remains which were sometimes just given to us in shopping bags.”

Historically, the DNA process has taken weeks or even months — both a result of the technology used and lab backlogs, according to the report.

The new technology will help with that problem as well, officials say.

Local officials, along with the Justice Department, are working through the DNA process, according to the report. They have declined to comment on how long it will take to confirm the victims’ identities.

Although no names have been officially released, several have trickled out on social media and in published reports.

The “rapid DNA” technology has been used by the US military since 2014, and law enforcement agencies picked it up about two years later, according to the report.

It’s recently been employed by the Department of Homeland Security to confirm family links among migrants arriving at the country’s border with Mexico.