redeployment

noun

re·​de·​ploy·​ment ¦rē-di-¦plȯi-mənt 

: a relocation or reassignment of men or equipment

redeployment of United States forces from western Europe to the Far East

—E. L. Erickson

large-scale redeployment of labor

—Thomas Balogh

the Soviet Union's mammoth redeployment of industry into the Ural Mountains

—Newsweek

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